{"id":1093526,"date":"2021-12-07T08:58:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1093526"},"modified":"2021-12-07T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T13:58:47","slug":"youre-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youre-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;You&#039;re Not Invited&#039;: China Laughs off Joe Biden&#039;s Olympics Half-Measure"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fyoure-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure%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=1093526&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\">China\u2019s top English-language propagandists mocked President Joe Biden&nbsp;on Tuesday following the announcement that he would allow the U.S. to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but withhold uninvited politicians, comparing the move to charging \u201can appearance fee to go to public restrooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has branded the move a \u201cdiplomatic boycott,\u201d claiming it was \u201cthe right move\u201d and sent a \u201cclear\u201d message that America did not approve of China\u2019s long list of ongoing human rights atrocities, most prominently the genocide of the Uyghur ethnic people through the use of mass sterilization campaigns and concentration camps.<\/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>Chinese government-run media outlets, their opinion personalities, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry have all repeatedly noted that the diplomats Biden\u2019s officials claim are \u201cboycotting\u201d the event were never invited and play no role in the actual execution of the athletic events scheduled to occur.<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and governments around the world have faced growing pressure from human rights groups and the victims of Chinese communism to postpone or relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics and avoid rewarding the Communist Party with an honorable global platform.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC has adamantly refused to acknowledge the concerns, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/olympics-vp-says-china-human-rights-not-within-ioc-remit\/\">insisting<\/a>&nbsp;it has no power to keep the Olympics out of the hands of tyrants because \u201cwe are not a world government.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Olympics sponsors have also refused to stop funding the event despite the evidence that their money will go towards eliminating ethnic and religious groups unpalatable to the Chinese Communist Party. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/07\/28\/coke-visa-airbnb-beijing-olympics-uyghur-genocide\/\">Companies<\/a> like Coca-Cola, AirBnb, Intel, and Visa have retained their status as Olympic \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/partners\">partners<\/a>\u201d and justified the move claiming they only aim to benefit participating athletes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17603586\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233604306.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17603586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1233604306.jpg\" alt=\"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&#039;s human rights record. (Photo by William WEST \/ AFP) (Photo by WILLIAM WEST\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>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. (WILLIAM WEST\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAllowing China to host the Olympics, a very prestigious international event, in light of the Uyghur genocide and numerous other human rights abuses, is indefensible,\u201d Koen Stoop, the E.U. policy director for the advocacy group the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/28\/exclusive-uyghur-group-olympics-will-encourage-china-to-conduct-more-genocide\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News in August.\u201cThe Chinese government will undoubtedly make use of this occasion to promote itself to the rest of the world, presenting China as a state that, contrary to reality, is not one of the worst human rights violators of this century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, a platform Chinese citizens without high-level connections in the regime cannot access, some of the Communist Party\u2019s most obnoxious mouthpieces mocked the formal announcement that the American team would participate in what human rights advocates have dubbed the \u201cGenocide Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chen Weihua, a notoriously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/12\/03\/chinese-state-owned-media-editor-calls-sen-marsha-blackburn-btch\/\">misogynistic<\/a>&nbsp;editor with the state-run&nbsp;<em>China Daily<\/em>, repeatedly responded to news of the diplomatic \u201cboycott\u201d by stating, \u201cyou\u2019re not invited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not invited and not welcome, Mr Biden,\u201d Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chenweihua\/status\/1467955016174649347?s=21\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cHope you will live long enough to see China boycotting Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chen regularly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/22\/chinese-propagandist-dismisses-taiwan-defense-biden-too-old-to-think-clearly\/\">mocks<\/a> Biden for his age on Twitter and suggests that Biden is suffering from dementia.<\/p>\n<p>In another post, Chen <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chenweihua\/status\/1467937469127708690?s=21\">repeated<\/a>, \u201cyou are not welcome anyway,\u201d accusing American diplomats of having \u201ctoo much virus\u201d \u2013 a reference to the Chinese coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, and became the driver of an ongoing pandemic that the Chinese Communist Party directly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/06\/11\/9-ways-unrelated-wuhan-lab-china-created-pandemic\/\">caused<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the government-run propaganda newspaper&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, called the Biden administration \u201csuper narcissistic\u201d in response to the loud declaration that it would not send politicians to an athletic event and, like Chen, implied that Biden administration officials are Chinese coronavirus superspreaders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.696378830084\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Only super narcissistic people will regard their absence as a powerful boycott. Most of those US govt officials are close contacts of the COVID-19 patients according to China\u2019s standard, moreover picky and pretentious. You are the people that Beijing residents least want to see. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jMrrmBHr8G\">https:\/\/t.co\/jMrrmBHr8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hu Xijin \u80e1\u9521\u8fdb (@HuXijin_GT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1467932964130484224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a separate message, Hu joked that the \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d was akin to asking \u201cfor an appearance fee to go to public restrooms in foreign cities.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.59217877095\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">With the premise that Washington was not invited to the Winter Olympics, it has made a big deal announcing it will not send a government delegation to the Games. They are so arrogant that one day they could ask for an appearance fee to go to public restrooms in foreign cities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vAKn5jJrMe\">pic.twitter.com\/vAKn5jJrMe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Hu Xijin \u80e1\u9521\u8fdb (@HuXijin_GT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HuXijin_GT\/status\/1468139495971500035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday that the U.S. would participate in the Beijing Olympics, asserting that the Biden administration officials \u201clook forward to\u201d supporting athletes as they participate in an event that legitimizes a genocidal regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot sending a U.S. delegation sends a clear message that we cannot conduct ourselves with business as usual,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics\/\">claimed<\/a>. \u201cWe feel this sends a clear message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That clarity was apparently lost on the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which appeared baffled on Monday at the idea that uninvited politicians not crashing the event constituted some form of hindrance for Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS politicians keep hyping a \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 without even being invited to the Games,\u201d ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian&nbsp;<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>. \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<div id=\"attachment_18394042\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TIbet.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18394042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TIbet.jpeg\" alt=\"Protesters holding the Tibetan flag crash the flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Ancient Olympia archeological site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on October 18, 2021. (Aris Messinis\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Protesters holding the Tibetan flag crash the flame lighting ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Ancient Olympia archeological site, birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece on October 18, 2021. (Aris Messinis\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Xinhua News Agency, another Chinese government mouthpiece, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2021\/1207\/c90000-9929695.html\">called<\/a> the move \u201cno more than a self-invented and politically convenient excuse for Washington.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when unity is needed above all else, such a boycott will not only cripple and disrupt global solidarity but also serve as a fatuous gesture,\u201d Xinhua asserted.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese mission to the United Nations dismissed the move as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.people.cn\/n3\/2021\/1207\/c90000-9929632.html\">farce<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe success of the games does not rely on the attendance of a handful of countries\u2019 government officials,\u201d the mission said in a statement, adding, \u201cwhether you come or not, the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are there, and will be a success.\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=1638961894323000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3bAh8zvYyvv_IQ5dtCJ8Cu\">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=1638961894323000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3u8kuulvgtH6jaTcKQUyuC\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s top English-language propagandists mocked President Joe Biden\u00a0on Tuesday following the announcement that he would allow the U.S. to play in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics but withhold uninvited politicians, &#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-1093526","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\/1093526","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=1093526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093526\/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=1093526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}