Tuesday, December 7, 2021

WAY TO GO: U.S. announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics, China threatens repercussions - Due to as Psaki stated, "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,"

All I can say is good for the "greatest of the great" - USA and UK off course https://ausertimes.blogspot.com/2021/11/naziallies-deal-failure-always-resulted.html.

Ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity ? Aha, okay then.

From https://sports.yahoo.com/united-states-to-announce-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-over-china-human-rights-abuses-021138401.html

U.S. announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics, China threatens repercussions

Ryan Young and Henry Bushnell

Mon, December 6, 2021, 3:11 AM·5 min read

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday that the Biden administration "will not send any diplomatic or official representation" to the upcoming Beijing Olympics.

Psaki, in confirming the long-expected diplomatic boycott, cited the Chinese government's "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang," as well as "other human rights abuses."

The announcement came several hours after a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, anticipating the move, accused U.S. politicians of "grandstanding" and "political provocation," and threatened "firm countermeasures." Psaki did not comment directly on that threat.

She did clarify, though, that U.S. athletes have the White House's "full support." Their participation in the Winter Games, which begin Feb. 4, won't be impacted.

"But we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the Games," Psaki said. "U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these Games as business as usual in the face of [China's] egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang. And we simply can't do that."

Why a diplomatic boycott?

President Biden said last month, days after he virtually met with China’s leader Xi Jinping, that the United States was considering a diplomatic boycott. The Olympics didn’t come up in that meeting, but Biden did discuss human rights abuses in the country.

China is accused of arbitrarily detaining more than a million Muslims, many of them Uyghurs, and cracking down on freedoms throughout the western region of Xinjiang. Both the Biden administration and Trump administration have deemed China's treatment of Uyghurs a “genocide.”

Congressmen, activists and many others have long urged the U.S. and other democratic nations to execute a diplomatic boycott. Senator Mitt Romney described the idea in a March op-ed, writing that an "economic and diplomatic boycott" would “reduce China’s revenues, shut down their propaganda, and expose their abuses.” Romney and Senator Tim lalalblahlalalal lalala read everything at https://sports.yahoo.com/united-states-to-announce-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-over-china-human-rights-abuses-021138401.html <== THE news, am sure, you do not want to miss....