The United States will diplomatically boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics in China, but still allow athletes representing the nation to compete in the Winter Games.
“The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Monday.
Psaki explained that the decision was a response to the “PRC’s ongoing genocide and humanity in in Xinjiang, and other human rights abuses,” but noted that “the athletes on Team USA” have the administration’s full support. “We’ll be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from home.”
China has reportedly detained more than a million Muslim Uyghurs in “re-education camps” that they claim are intended to combat Islamic militancy, but have denied allegations of torture, sexual abuse, forced sterilization, and labor abuses.
“We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games. U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC’s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply can’t do that,” Psaki continued.
She remarked that the nation has a “fundamental commitment to promoting human rights” and that President Biden has told the People’s Republic of China’s President Xi Jinping that “standing up for human rights is in the DNA of Americans.”
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian threatened “firm countermeasures” against the United States after the announcement.
China’s Mission to the United Nations said the diplomatic boycott was a “self-directed political farce,” and claimed that the “ U.S. just wants to politicize sports, create divisions and provoke confrontation.”
The Chinese Embassy in Washington claimed that the boycott was happening over “political interests and posturing,” but “no one would care about whether these people come or not, and it has no impact whatsoever” on the success of the Beijing Olympics.
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If I were the Chinese I wouldn’t want Brandon there either
Who the hell cares. The chinese have already stated there would be on one allowed in any of the olympic venues except chinese people. So I would think this is all more exhausted gas on the part of that miserable puke in the wh!
Yeah, that’ll really scare them. Without a boycott of athletes anything else is toothless.
The democrat machine can’t govern, look at crimes, look at our our borders, look at our energy policy, look at our shortages, BIDEN UNFIT TO MENTALLY SERVE AS PRESIDENT IT’S NOT A FXXXIN GAME .THIS CAN’T BE HIDDEN FROM THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. NO DOCTOR WILL SIGN OFF ON HIS MENTAL STATE TO SERVE AS PRESIDENT.The examination revealed that the president of the United States suffers from a “number of health issues”, but even more concerning, perhaps, was the fact that “Biden refused cognitive testing” – “despite showing obvious signs of diminished cognitive function”. Biden’s physical was completed by Kevin C. O’Connor, D.O., and included consultation with several of the Presidential Specialty Consultants from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, including specialists in optometry, otolaryngology (ENT), dentistry, orthopedics (foot and ankle), orthopedics (spine), physical therapy, neurology, cardiology, radiology, dermatology, anesthesiology, and gastroenterology. CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta was asked on air if Biden underwent any tests “that measured mental acuity” like former President Donald Trump did. “It doesn’t seem like it. I read pretty carefully through the doctor’s report, and there was, they mentioned “neurological exam, but that was more in terms of testing motor strength and sensation and things like that”,”Gupta responded. “President Trump had something known as the Montreal cognitive assessment. It’s sort of a screening test for dementia. And, you know, that there was no mention of that sort of thing here. It is a constant point of discussion. I can tell you within the geriatrics community, I wrote this book last year about brain health, and one of the things that kept coming up was, should sort of these types of screening tests, cognitive screening tests, be more commonly done? And there’s many in that community who believe starting at age 65, there should be some sort of screening that’s done. Dr. Ronald Peterson, who runs the Alzheimer’s clinic at Mayo has been somebody who talked about that.” “But as far as we know, for President Biden, we didn’t see any kind of tests like that performed.” O’Connor concluded by claiming that Biden“remains fit for duty, and fully executes all of his responsibilities without any exemptions or accommodations,”though without testing for what appears to be the most obvious threat to “Biden’s ability to perform his job, his mental fitness”, O’Connor’s stamp of approval is anything but reassuring for those skeptical of the president’s ability to lead.
Somebody send him “dunce” hat and sit him in the corner!
LISTEN UP….WHO Can TRUST the CHINESE Govt after COVID????? The FALLEN ANGELS have MORE INTEGRITY than THEM. The ANGELS Do NOT SWORDFIGHT Below the BELT. From SamuraiQueen. 😄😄😄
Everything Pretender Biden does is Pathetic……………………….
once the bully and cheater AKA OUR presidential loser Kisses China’s ass trying to look tough against his owners bought and paid for.