{"id":1090364,"date":"2021-12-06T15:13:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090364"},"modified":"2021-12-06T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T20:13:40","slug":"white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Confirms U.S. Will Play China&#039;s Genocide Olympics"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhite-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics%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=1090364&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\">The White House confirmed Monday the United States would play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, despite the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s long history of human rights violations and ongoing genocide against Muslims in the country.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced during the press briefing that the United States would send athletes and participate in the games.<\/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>\u201cWe believe U.S. athletes, people who have been training, giving up a lot of blood, sweat, and tears preparing for these Olympics should be able to go and compete, and we look forward to cheering for them from home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki said the United States had decided to level a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Olympics to send a message to the world on China\u2019s record of human rights violations. The \u201cboycott\u201d would mean Biden administration representatives would not attend the event. As diplomats do not participate in the Games, such a move would not in any way impact the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot sending a U.S. delegation sends a clear message that we cannot conduct ourselves with business as usual,\u201d Psaki spun. \u201cWe feel this sends a clear message.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>China has not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/06\/cnn-biden-to-go-for-olympics-diplomatic-non-boycott-after-china-says-u-s-diplomats-unwelcome\/\">publicly<\/a> invited Biden or any officials to Beijing for the Games. The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, a Chinese government newspaper, has repeatedly mocked the idea of a \u201cdiplomatic boycott,\u201d most recently noting that such a boycott is impossible if China does not invite American diplomats.<\/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 an article in 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\/\">read<\/a> last month. \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<p>On Monday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reiterated that the people in the Biden administration allegedly planning to \u201cboycott\u201d were not invited, so they could not reject the invitation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17351802\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17351802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/joe-biden-xi-jinping-2013-getty.jpg\" alt=\"biden xi\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo credit should read LINTAO ZHANG\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cUS politicians keep hyping a \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 without even being invited to the Games,\u201d Zhao <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202112\/t20211206_10463087.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cThis wishful thinking and pure grandstanding is aimed at political manipulation. It is a grave travesty of the spirit of the Olympic Charter, a blatant political provocation and a serious affront to the 1.4 billion Chinese people.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Zhao threatened unspecified \u201cmeasures\u201d against the United States if Biden greenlit the diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d idea.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki did not clarify the uncertainty regarding how uninvited diplomats would boycott the event by not going.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki did say the administration\u2019s message to China was \u201cclear enough\u201d on human rights while still allowing athletes to compete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that we felt it was the right step to penalize athletes who have been training, preparing for this moment and we felt we could send a clear enough message by not sending an official U.S. delegation,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18304410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18304410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1233604496.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Activists including members of the local Hong Kong, Tibetan and Uyghur communities hold up banners and placards in Melbourne on June 23, 2021, calling on the Australian government to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics over China\u2019s human rights record. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Biden decided to send athletes to China despite Republican calls for a full boycott of the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/sen-tom-cotton-calls-biden-administration-boycott-2022-winter-olympics-n1284118\">called<\/a> for a total boycott of the games in a November press conference, with \u201cno athletes, no administration officials, no corporate sponsors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley criticized Biden\u2019s announcement on social media, calling it a \u201cjoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics is a joke,\u201d she wrote. \u201cChina doesn\u2019t care if Biden and Team show up. 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