{"id":64504,"date":"2021-12-07T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=64504"},"modified":"2021-12-07T07:26:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:56:05","slug":"usa-has-announced-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-winter-olympics-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/usa-has-announced-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-winter-olympics-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Has Announced A \u201cDiplomatic Boycott\u201d Of The Winter Olympics In China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Biden Administration will not send any US diplomatic representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a statement against Chinese human rights abuses in Xinjiang, says White House press secretary Jen Psaki.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/fiveaa-sports-show-with-rowey-bicks\/roweys-sports-show-podcast-6-december-2021\/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Rowey's Sports Show Podcast - 6 December 2021\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Ms Psaki:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics games given the PRC&#8217;s ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang.&#8221;<\/p><p>&#8220;US diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC&#8217;s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply can&#8217;t do that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: U.S. will not send diplomatic representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics Games in Beijing over China\u2019s \u201cegregious human rights abuses,\u201d White House press sec. 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