{"id":1028002,"date":"2021-11-18T15:13:33","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028002"},"modified":"2021-11-18T15:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T20:13:37","slug":"biden-says-hes-considering-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-olympics-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-hes-considering-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-olympics-in-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says He\u2019s \u2018Considering\u2019 A Diplomatic Boycott Of Winter Olympics In Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-says-hes-considering-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-olympics-in-beijing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1028002&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The U.S. is \u201cconsidering\u201d a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden confirmed that the boycott is \u201csomething we are considering\u201d during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. A diplomatic boycott would allow for U.S. athletes to attend and compete in the games, but the U.S. would not send a delegation of prominent officials to attend. It is common for a vice president or first lady to attend the games alongside a number of senior officials.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. relations with China have become increasingly strained under former President Donald Trump and Biden. China has engaged in numerous human rights abuses, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/19\/harvard-fellowship-recipients-xinjiang-detention-camps-genocide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">including the ongoing genocide<\/a> of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang and the overthrow of democracy in Hong Kong. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/30\/state-department-human-rights-report-china-genocide-uyghurs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: State Department Releases Report Blasting China For Its Genocide Against The Uighurs)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7250827\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7250827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A Chinese flag flutters in front of the IOC headquarters during a protest by activists of the International Tibet Network against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics on Februay 3, 2021 in Lausanne. \u2013 A coalition of campaign groups issued an open letter calling on world leaders to boycott the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics over China\u2019s human rights record. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The abuses have led to an outcry from human rights groups calling for the U.S. and other countries to fully boycott the games. The Department of State <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/06\/joe-biden-winter-olympics-rick-scott-beijing-state-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in April<\/a> that a full boycott is not off the table, but the White House now appears to be leaning toward a lighter rebuke in the diplomatic boycott.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki elaborated on Biden\u2019s statement during a Thursday press briefing. Reporters also pressed her on whether the consideration of a boycott was a commentary on Biden\u2019s Monday meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t say anything about the meeting. They didn\u2019t talk about the Olympics during the meeting; it wasn\u2019t a topic that was discussed during the meeting,\u201d Psaki said, adding that the Biden administration has always seen the U.S.-China relationship as one of mutual competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\" readability=\"6.8967391304348\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">PSAKI on Biden\u2019s comments that he is \u201cconsidering\u201d a diplomatic boycott of the Olympics in China. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lSjswsJTi2\">pic.twitter.com\/lSjswsJTi2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zach Purser Brown (@zachjourno) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachjourno\/status\/1461419007374880769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are areas that we do have concerns. Human rights abuses, you\u2019ve seen. not just in words we\u2019ve used but certainly in actions we\u2019ve taken at the G7 and other sanctions, that we have serious concerns about the human rights abuses we\u2019ve seen in Xinjiang, and certainly there are a range of factors as we look at what our presence would be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is \u201cconsidering\u201d a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, President Joe Biden told reporters Thursday.Biden confirmed that the boycott is \u201csomething we are considering\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}