{"id":970,"date":"2021-12-06T18:02:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=970"},"modified":"2021-12-06T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T15:03:00","slug":"biden-administration-expected-to-announce-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/biden-administration-expected-to-announce-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"BIDEN ADMINISTRATION EXPECTED TO ANNOUNCE DIPLOMATIC BOYCOTT OF BEIJING OLYMPICS THIS WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

CNN<\/a>. 6 December 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an article published by CNN<\/a>. Photo:AFP.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Biden administration is expected to announce this week that no US government officials will attend the\u00a02022 Beijing Olympics, implementing a diplomatic boycott of the games, according to several sources.The move would allow the US to send a message on the world stage to\u00a0China\u00a0without preventing US athletes from competing. The National Security Council, which has been privately discussing the boycott, declined to comment.President Joe Biden told reporters last month that he was\u00a0weighing a diplomatic boycott\u00a0as Democratic and Republican lawmakers, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, advocated for one in protest of China\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

A full boycott is not expected, meaning US athletes will still be allowed to compete. The last time the US fully boycotted the Olympics was in 1980 when former President Jimmy Carter was in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to the news, Beijing warned it would take \u201cresolute countermeasures\u201d against the Biden administration if the diplomatic boycott went ahead.\u201dThe US should stop politicizing sports and hyping up the so-called \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 so as not to affect China-US dialogue and cooperation in important areas,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said at a news conference Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhao called the potential boycott \u201ca stain on the spirit of the Olympic charter\u201d and a \u201csensationalist and politically manipulative\u201d move by US politicians.Last month\u2019s virtual summit between Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping \u2014 seen as some of the most critical diplomatic talks of Biden\u2019s presidency \u2014 yielded no significant breakthroughs. However, it served as an auspicious restart to relations following steep deterioration during the final year of the Trump administration and continued hostility into the Biden administration, including when US and Chinese diplomats traded barbs during a March summit in Alaska.Throughout the November summit, Biden and Xi engaged engaged in a \u201chealthy debate,\u201d according to a senior Biden administration official present for the discussions. Biden raised concerns about human rights, Chinese aggression toward Taiwan and trade issues.Nearly every major issue Biden is focused on \u2014 including addressing supply chain issues, climate change, North Korea and Iran \u2014 has a nexus to China. And the two countries, which have the world\u2019s two largest economies, remain in disputes over trade, military aggression, global infrastructure, public health and human rights.Biden has long argued that democracies can deliver more effectively than autocracies like China, and he\u2019s used the bipartisan infrastructure law to show domestically how political parties in democracies can work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi, meanwhile, cemented his consolidation of power after the Chinese Communist Party adopted a landmark resolution elevating him in stature to that of his two most powerful predecessors \u2014 Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. He is attempting to seek an unprecedented third term in power at the 20th Party Congress next fall. OLDER POSTS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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