Australia will join the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday. The United States has said its government officials will boycott February’s Beijing Olympics because of China’s human rights “atrocities”. The declaration came just weeks after talks aimed at easing tense relations between the world’s two largest economies. read more China said the United States would “pay the price” for its decision and warned of countermeasures in response, but gave no details. Morrison said Wednesday’s decision came because o…