The UK will “in due course” consider whether or not to impose a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, British Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.
“I was asked whether or not I will go, and let’s consider it [o nível de representação no evento] in due course,” said Raab.
the american boycott
Joe Biden’s government will not send any diplomatic representatives to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing as a statement against China’s human rights abuses in Xinjiang, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday (6).
Psaki said the US government was sending a “clear message” that China’s human rights violations mean there can’t be “business as usual.”
“The Biden government will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games due to the ongoing genocide in China and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang,” Psaki said at a press conference on Monday. fair.
Psaki added that the US sports team has “full support” from the government, but that the government would not be “contributing to the fanfare of the game”.
“The US diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as normal in the face of China’s blatant human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply cannot do that,” Psaki said.
Psaki also said that the diplomatic boycott of the Games does not mean “the end of the concerns we will raise about human rights abuses”.
Asked whether the US is trying to get other allies to join the country in the diplomatic boycott, Psaki said the White House has informed its allies of the decision, and that “we will obviously let them make their own decisions.”
Psaki said the White House does not think it is the “right step” or fair to penalize American athletes with an entire US boycott of the Winter Olympics.
Chinese reaction
China’s embassy in Washington said the United States’ announcement of a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics is “a pretentious act” and a “political manipulation” and that it will have no impact on the success of hosting the Games.
“No invitations were extended to US politicians, so this ‘diplomatic boycott’ just came out of nowhere,” said embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu in an email response to a request for comment on the ad.
“Such a pretentious act is just political manipulation and a serious distortion of the spirit of the Olympic Charter. In fact, no one would care whether these people came or not, and it has no impact on the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games to be held successfully,” he said.
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Reference: CNN Brasil
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