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The White House announced on Monday that the U.S. will not send an official delegation to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

This action is in response to China's ongoing genocide in crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,

according to press secretary

Gen Saki.

The next day, President Biden spoke on a video call with Russian President Vladimir Putin

in what the New York Times called a high-stakes diplomatic effort to de-escalate a crisis

over Ukraine as tens of thousands of Russian troops amass along the Ukrainian border,

raising fears of an invasion.

After the conference, which lasted just over two hours, the White House reported that President

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