Do we really have another 43 weeks of boycott talk to go before the Beijing Winter Olympics? As the peerless China watcher Bill Bishop wrote this week, a boycott is “highly unlikely”, but it’s connected to so many other China issues du jour that the column inches just keep flowing. As always, there’s a round-up below, but plenty of other stuff, too, including Ping Pong Diplomacy, which happened exactly 50 years ago today (April 10). If you have any questions or specific topics of interest you’d like to see covered, please feel free to comment or email me at mark@chinasportsinsider.com

Weekly Roundup

• 50th anniversary of Ping Pong Diplomacy
• Canadian heptathlete gains Chinese citizenship in Olympic bid
• How legitimate are the rescheduled Olympic test events?
• US discusses a boycott with allies – then backtracks
• More boycott news from around the world
• Other features and stories in the build-up to Beijing 2022