Staff members walk by a Beijing 2022 sign at the National Ski Jumping Centre during a government-organised media tour to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics venues in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, China on Dec 21, 2021. - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters): Japan will not send a government delegation to next year's Winter Olympics in Beijing, it said on Friday (Dec 24), a move that stops short of joining a US-led diplomatic boycott of the Games, but one nonetheless likely to deepen tension with China.
The boycott, driven by Washington and including some of its allies, has become another delicate issue for Japan, a close partner of the United States that also has strong economic ties to China.
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