{"id":1096566,"date":"2021-12-07T22:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1096566"},"modified":"2021-12-07T22:13:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:13:59","slug":"new-zealand-keeping-politicians-not-athletes-home-from-genocide-olympics-over-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-zealand-keeping-politicians-not-athletes-home-from-genocide-olympics-over-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Keeping Politicians, Not Athletes, Home from Genocide Olympics over Coronavirus"},"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\">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%2Fnew-zealand-keeping-politicians-not-athletes-home-from-genocide-olympics-over-coronavirus%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=1096566&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-635556782-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">New Zealand&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/new-zealand-wont-send-diplomats-beijing-olympics-cites-covid-19-2021-12-07\/\">announced<\/a> Tuesday it will not send representatives at the ministerial level to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, in February because the \u201clogistics of travel\u201d during the coronavirus pandemic \u201care not conducive\u201d to such a trip, though Wellington said its diplomats may still attend the Games.<\/p>\n<p>The leftist New Zealand government emphasized the pandemic \u2013 not widespread concerns about China\u2019s rampant human rights atrocities \u2013 were behind the decision.<\/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>New Zealand Minister of Sport and Recreation Grant Robertson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/politics\/127208066\/beijing-winter-olympics-us-diplomatic-ban-new-zealand-government-not-sending-ministers-diplomats-may-attend--sport-minister-grant-robertson\">told<\/a> reporters on December 7 that Wellington \u201chad decided in October it would not send any Government ministers to the Winter Olympic Games, and China had been informed of this,\u201d according to New Zealand\u2019s Stuff news site.<\/p>\n<p>Asked why Wellington chose to limit the number of attendants it will send to the Winter Games he replied, \u201cThere was a range of factors but mostly to do with Covid, and the fact that the logistics of travel and so on around Covid are not conducive to that kind of trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson referred to \u201cCovid-19,\u201d the name of the disease caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. \u201cCovid-19\u201d is also known as the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The sports minister said he would not call New Zealand\u2019s stance on the 2022 Winter Olympics a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d because the country may still send diplomats to the Games. A \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d is not a boycott, as diplomats do not participate in sporting competitions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.5238095238095\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New Zealand will not be sending diplomatic representatives at a ministerial level to the Beijing Winter Olympics in February, Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson said, citing COVID-19 as the reason. More here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3oSQVbqpW3\">https:\/\/t.co\/3oSQVbqpW3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9IO9erlxeu\">pic.twitter.com\/9IO9erlxeu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Reuters Sports (@ReutersSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ReutersSports\/status\/1468091651881148418?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement on December 7 indicating it planned to send its ambassador to China, Clare Fearnley\u200b, to Beijing in February to attend the 2022 Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe New Zealand Olympic Committee has sought accreditation for a small number of Embassy staff, including the Ambassador [Fearnley\u200b], to provide consular support to the [athletic] team, should it be needed, as is standard practice for this kind of event,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo decisions have been taken on attendance beyond this,\u201d the New Zealand Foreign Ministry added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>New Zealand\u2019s far-left prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/politics\/2021\/11\/jacinda-ardern-wishes-china-s-xi-jinping-every-success-with-beijing-winter-olympics-labelled-genocide-games-by-activists.html\">told<\/a> reporters on November 6 she had wished Beijing \u201cevery success\u201d in hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics during a November 5 phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wished every success to China in hosting, highlighted again that whilst it wasn\u2019t a general practice for ministers to attend the Winter Games, that we would be sending a team of New Zealand athletes and that we, if I recall my words, wish them every success for the successful hosting of those games,\u201d Ardern said.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing and Wellington have enjoyed positive relations since 2008 when New Zealand became the first developed country in the world to sign a free trade agreement with China.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mfat.govt.nz\/en\/trade\/free-trade-agreements\/free-trade-agreements-in-force\/nz-china-free-trade-agreement\/new-zealand-china-fta-overview\/\">website<\/a> of New Zealand\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, \u201cChina is now New Zealand\u2019s largest trading partner, with two-way trade valued at over NZ$28 billion [USD $18.9 billion] in 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina is also New Zealand\u2019s second-largest and fastest-growing tourism market, largest source of international students, and a significant source of foreign investment,\u201d the ministry states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand\u00a0announced Tuesday it will not send representatives at the ministerial level to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China, in February because the \u201clogistics of travel\u201d during the coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"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-1096566","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\/1096566","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096566\/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=1096566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}