{"id":117500,"date":"2021-12-07T00:32:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=117500"},"modified":"2021-12-07T00:32:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:32:05","slug":"us-announces-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/12\/07\/us-announces-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"US announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China\u2019s human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes after Washington spent months wrangling with what position to take on the Games, hosted in February next year by a country it accuses of perpetrating \u201cgenocide\u201d against Uyghur Muslims in the northwestern Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate reaction from Beijing, but the Chinese foreign ministry had earlier threatened \u201cresolute countermeasures\u201d to any such boycott.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was broadly welcomed by rights groups and politicians in the US, where President Joe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/11\/20\/biden-declared-healthy-fit-for-presidency-after-check-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> has been under pressure to speak out against Chinese rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the administration would send no diplomatic or official representation to the Games given China\u2019s \u201congoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sending official representation would signal that the Games were \u201cbusiness as usual,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we simply can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee said the sending or not of officials was a \u201cpurely political decision for each government, which the IOC in its political neutrality fully respects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement \u201calso makes it clear that the Olympic Games and the participation of the athletes are beyond politics and we welcome this,\u201d an IOC spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Diplomatic high-wire act \u2013<br \/>\nUS-China relations hit a low point under Biden\u2019s predecessor Donald Trump, with a massive trade war and incendiary debate over how the Covid-19 virus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has sought to re-engage with Beijing, while at the same time focusing on strengthening traditional US alliances to counter China\u2019s ever-growing economic clout and military presence across the Indo-Pacific region.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics boycott is part of a complex diplomatic balancing act.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s administration has left Trump-era trade tariffs on China in place and continues to order naval patrols through sensitive international sea lanes that China is accused of trying to bring under its control.<\/p>\n<p>However, with Biden also emphasizing the need for dialogue, critics on the right say he is being too soft.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the looming Olympic Games a political flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Members of Team USA, their coaches, trainers and other staff will still receive consular and diplomatic security assistance, State Department spokesman Ned Price said.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about calls for private businesses to end any Winter Games sponsorships, he stressed that the decision was up to them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not in this country \u2014 unlike other countries \u2014 the role of the government to dictate the practices that the private sector should adopt,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2018Powerful rebuke\u2019 \u2013<br \/>\nCampaigners say that at least one million Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim minorities have been incarcerated in camps in Xinjiang, where China is also accused of forcibly sterilizing women and imposing forced labour.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Menendez, the chair of the powerful US Senate foreign relations committee, welcomed the diplomatic boycott as \u201ca powerful rebuke\u201d of the \u201cgenocide in Xinjiang.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He and top House foreign affairs Democrat Gregory Meeks called for other countries to follow the US lead.<\/p>\n<p>Meeks warned the international community should not be helping China \u201cwhitewash its atrocities against Uyghurs and other minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Republican Senator Tom Cotton called it a \u201chalf measure, when bold leadership was required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States should fully boycott the Genocide Games in Beijing,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The last full boycott of the Olympics by the US was in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter withdrew in protest against the Soviet Union\u2019s invasion of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch called the Biden administration\u2019s decision \u201ccrucial\u201d but urged more accountability \u201cfor those responsible for these crimes and justice for the survivors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian warned the Games were \u201cnot a stage for political posturing and manipulation\u201d \u2014 in response to reports a boycott could be imminent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the US is bent on having its own way, China will take resolute countermeasures,\u201d he vowed.<\/p>\n<p>Coming just six months after the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Summer Games, the Winter Olympics will be held from February 4 to 20 in a \u201cclosed loop\u201d bubble because of Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, Chinese are relieved to hear the news, because the fewer US officials come, the fewer viruses will be brought in,\u201d tweeted the Chinese state-owned tabloid newspaper, Global Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a calibrated rebuke of China\u2019s human rights record that stops short of preventing US athletes from competing. 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