{"id":1089125,"date":"2021-12-06T09:13:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1089125"},"modified":"2021-12-06T09:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T14:13:43","slug":"cnn-biden-to-go-for-olympics-diplomatic-non-boycott-after-china-says-u-s-diplomats-unwelcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-biden-to-go-for-olympics-diplomatic-non-boycott-after-china-says-u-s-diplomats-unwelcome\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Biden to Go for Olympics &#039;Diplomatic&#039; Non-Boycott (After China Says U.S. Diplomats Unwelcome)"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fcnn-biden-to-go-for-olympics-diplomatic-non-boycott-after-china-says-u-s-diplomats-unwelcome%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=1089125&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 class=\"subheading\">Leftist network CNN reported on Sunday, citing anonymous \u201csources,\u201d that President Joe Biden would announce a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics this week \u2013 a move that would have no impact on the Games and that Chinese state media has openly mocked.<\/p>\n<p>A diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d of the Olympics would mean Biden would keep White House politicians from attending the event. As diplomats do not play sports at the Olympics, a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d would in no way impede the Olympics or affect the athletics in any way, meaning it is not a boycott.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>China has not publicly invited Biden or any of his officials to Beijing, however, and the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, a Chinese Communist Party propaganda newspaper, has stated that a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d is impossible as the diplomats have to be invited to reject the invite. As the <em>Times<\/em> is a government mouthpiece, it often serves to relay the stances of the Communist Party in a more aggressive way than China prefers from its formal diplomats and spokespeople.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Foreign Ministry appeared to contradict the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> on Monday, stating that the communist regime had invited \u201cU.S. politicians,\u201d without specifying, to the Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden administration is expected to announce this week that no US government officials will attend the 2022 Beijing Olympics, implementing a diplomatic boycott of the games, according to several sources,\u201d CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/12\/05\/politics\/biden-beijing-olympics-boycott\/index.html\">alleged<\/a> on Sunday. \u201cA 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.348623853211\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Biden White House says no final decision has been made on boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing to protest the Uyghur genocide. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YbvS18xJKM\">https:\/\/t.co\/YbvS18xJKM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1366103407036141573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The outlet claimed that officials within the U.S. National Security Council were \u201cprivately discussing\u201d the event, without stating where that information came from, and noted that the Council itself refused to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/18\/joe-biden-united-states-considering-diplomatic-boycott-of-2022-winter-olympics-in-china\/\">confirmed<\/a> last month that he was considering a diplomatic \u201cboycott,\u201d calling it \u201csomething we are considering.\u201d Neither he nor anyone in his administration has made any indication that they are considering a real boycott of the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/23\/china-joe-bidens-possible-diplomatic-non-boycott-of-olympics-no-big-deal\/\">called<\/a> the potential move \u201cno big deal\u201d and asserted that, so long as the Chinese government does not invite an American diplomatic presence at the Games, Biden cannot use that presence to \u201cboycott\u201d the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina never plans to invite US and Western politicians who hype the \u2018boycott\u2019 topic to attend the Games and experts said that their so-called boycott is nothing but self-deception,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/30\/china-biden-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-impossible-because-u-s-diplomats-not-invited\/\">asserted<\/a> in late November.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[I]n accordance with the Olympic rules, for politicians to attend the Games they must be invited by their own countries\u2019 Olympic committees first and the final decision relies on the International Olympic Committee (IOC).\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18672114\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NBCBeijingWinterOlympics1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18672114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/NBCBeijingWinterOlympics1.jpg\" alt=\"olympics\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Joe Biden Biden confirmed last month that he was considering a diplomatic Beijing \u201cboycott,\u201d calling it \u201csomething we are considering.\u201d (FREDERIC J. BROWN\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em> noted not just that America is an adversarial nation, but that the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in the country and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/11\/9-ways-unrelated-wuhan-lab-china-created-pandemic\/\">became<\/a> a pandemic thanks to poor communist management, made inviting foreign politicians dangerous.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt is not proper to invite foreign guests on a large scale,\u201d the propaganda outlet stated.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that explanation, the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> dismissed Biden by explaining how a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d is not a boycott because nobody watches the Olympics for the politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrictly speaking, a boycott of the Olympic Games means banning all of its country\u2019s athletes from participation,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1239527.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">observed<\/a>. \u201c\u2018Diplomatic boycott\u2019 is a roughly man-made new concept by Western politicians, meaning no ban on athletes, but government officials would not attend.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAthletes are supposed to be the most crucial players in the Games, not political figures,\u201d it continued at the time. \u201cThe only connection between politicians and the sporting event is they may attend the opening and closing ceremonies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian \u2013 famous for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2020\/07\/09\/chinese-foreign-ministry-coronavirus-vaping\/\">peddling<\/a> a conspiracy theory that the Chinese coronavirus originated in Maryland, not Wuhan \u2013 appeared to contradict the ongoing&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> spin that Biden cannot boycott an event with uninvited non-guests on Monday. Zhao asserted that China had already invited an American political delegation, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. politicians continue to hype a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics although they have been invited,\u201d Zhao said on Monday during a regular Foreign Ministry briefing, according to Japan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/english\/articles\/20211206\/p2g\/00m\/0in\/047000c\">Kyodo News<\/a>. The spokesman vowed \u201cresolute countermeasures,\u201d without elaborating, if Biden withdraws his representatives from the event.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17842474\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/olympicsbeijingprotest1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17842474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/olympicsbeijingprotest1.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pro-Tibet demonstrators hold a protest outside Lausanne Palace hotel where a delegation of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics candidate city present their bid before IOC members and the press. (FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reports indicated last month that dictator Xi Jinping would invite Biden personally to the Olympics during an extended video call between the two leaders, but reports indicated that he did not do so. Instead, Xi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/19\/china-invites-vladimir-putin-but-not-joe-biden-to-beijing-winter-olympics\/\">invited<\/a> Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the event within the same week.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists and victims of the Chinese Communist Party have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/12\/human-rights-watch-olympics-sponsors-must-pressure-china-stop-atrocities\/\">advocating<\/a> for over a year that participants in the Olympics boycott the Beijing Games or the International Olympics Committee (IOC) postpone or relocate the event. China is one of the world\u2019s most brutal human rights abusers, most prominently engaging in an ongoing genocide of Uyghur people and other Muslim groups in East Turkistan, an occupied region in the west of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, formally declared the use of concentration camps, forced sterilization, and slavery in East Turkistan a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2021\/03\/31\/blinken-uyghur-china-human-rights-report\/\">genocide<\/a>\u201d in March. Under Xi, the Chinese Communist Party has also expanded systematic human rights abuses against members of \u201cillegal\u201d religions, human rights attorneys, political dissidents, and anyone who in any way challenges anyone identified with the regime \u2013 most recently tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared after accusing a former senior official of rape.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/13\/olympics-vp-gives-china-free-pass-no-human-rights-challenge-ahead-of-beijing-winter-games\/\">refused<\/a> to acknowledge any of China\u2019s human rights abuses, asserting, \u201cwe are not a world government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638873290778000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1QA08tmz68EbJcjtJNaG7N\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1638873290778000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2AlYai6qFSxqn18JB8Jmej\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leftist network CNN reported on Sunday, citing anonymous \u201csources,\u201d that President Joe Biden would announce a diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics this week \u2013 a move that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-1089125","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\/1089125","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089125\/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=1089125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}