The White House has announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. But this is nothing more than a weak symbolic stand, and it’s evident the administration would rather ignore China’s human rights record than have to address it.

A diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Olympics was the least the United States could do. No one is going to miss U.S. government officials at the opening ceremonies. It has no effect on anything but China’s fragile international pride, which can easily be papered over by the grand spectacle they will surely put on. As White House press secretary Jen Psaki insisted, it certainly isn’t something that shows “it cannot be business as usual.”