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Winter Olympics: China Calls US Diplomatic Boycott “Pretentious”

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.

Earlier, the Joe Biden administration announced that it will not send any political representatives to the Winter Olympics.

Also according to the US government, this decision does not affect the team that will compete in the Winter Games in 2022.

Reference: CNN Brasil

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