{"id":1092228,"date":"2021-12-06T23:43:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T04:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1092228"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:43:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T04:43:37","slug":"democrat-congressman-biden-letting-u-s-play-olympics-does-not-go-far-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-congressman-biden-letting-u-s-play-olympics-does-not-go-far-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Congressman: Biden Letting U.S. Play Olympics \u2018Does Not Go Far Enough\u2019"},"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%2Fdemocrat-congressman-biden-letting-u-s-play-olympics-does-not-go-far-enough%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=1092228&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-82156722-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) criticized the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it \u201cdoes not go far enough\u201d to hold China accountable.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan said in a&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepTimRyan\/status\/1467967547341524996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;on Monday:<\/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<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p>China has been a bad actor and everyone knows it \u2014 from continuing to stonewall on the WHO [World Health Organization] investigation of COVID-19 origins to perpetrating genocide and committing mass humans rights violations. I\u2019m glad to see the Biden Administration take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough. China has demonstrated again and again that they do not deserve the honor associated with hosting the Olympics, and the Games should be hosted elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.3002915451895\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m glad to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhiteHouse<\/a> take steps to hold China accountable, but this diplomatic boycott does not go far enough. China has demonstrated again and again that they do not deserve the honor associated with hosting the Olympics. My full statement \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7h4PAcrCAw\">pic.twitter.com\/7h4PAcrCAw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Congressman Tim Ryan (@RepTimRyan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepTimRyan\/status\/1467967547341524996?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The White House on Monday announced a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the upcoming Winter Olympics, citing the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s continuous human rights violations. Under this \u201cboycott,\u201d the United States will not send U.S. Government officials to the Beijing event. However, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics\/\">confirmed<\/a>&nbsp;that American athletes will still compete in the upcoming games.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian claimed Biden\u2019s \u201cboycott\u201d is \u201cpure grandstanding\u201d because U.S. diplomats were never invited to the games. Zhao <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202112\/t20211206_10463087.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>US politicians keep hyping a \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 without even being invited to the Games. This 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ryan, who is running for U.S. Senate in 2022,&nbsp;<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/timryan.house.gov\/media\/press-releases\/congressman-tim-ryan-leads-bipartisan-letter-calling-china-be-barred-hosting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a>&nbsp;on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in August to bar China from hosting the Winter Olympics entirely. He said, \u201cChina\u2019s refusal to work with the World Health Organization to understand the origin of this virus is irresponsible and unacceptable. In addition to its longstanding persecution and human rights violations against the Uighur ethnic minority\u2014itself enough to warrant moving the 2022 Winter Games\u2014China\u2019s refusal to cooperate on the origins of the COVID virus is yet one more example of China thumbing its nose at the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) criticized the Biden administration\u2019s \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying it \u201cdoes not go far enough\u201d to hold China accountable. Ryan said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"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-1092228","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\/1092228","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092228\/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=1092228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}