{"id":1101817,"date":"2021-12-09T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1101817"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T14:13:54","slug":"uk-confirms-athletes-will-play-in-chinas-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-confirms-athletes-will-play-in-chinas-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Confirms Athletes Will Play in China\u2019s 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%2Fuk-confirms-athletes-will-play-in-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=1101817&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-148203231-e1639044081798-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The UK will be sending Olympians to China\u2019s Beijing games, although it will keep officials at home in a poor simulacrum of a boycott, according to Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed that UK athletes will be allowed to go to the Winter Olympics in Beijing.<\/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>Johnson however did say that the UK government will join the US in their alleged \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Genocide Games by not sending any politicians or officials to the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be effectively a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics in Beijing,\u201d Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/parliamentlive.tv\/Event\/Index\/cd02abf1-8760-48f2-9ccc-14e6d5a8bfd3\">said<\/a> during Prime Ministers Questions in House of Commons. \u201cNo ministers are expected to attend and no officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also claimed that the UK has had \u201cno hesitation\u201d in raising the issue of the Uyghur genocide with the Chinese Communist party, but revealed he\u2019d decided to take absolutely no real action in the high-profile opportunity the Olympics provides, as he did not think that an actual sporting boycott would be \u201csensible\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.5072463768116\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Uyghurs Demand Biden Boycott &#8220;Genocide Olympics&#8221; in China <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JCF59Crtmp\">pic.twitter.com\/JCF59Crtmp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1459298554401497088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The announcement comes after similarly meaningless \u201cdiplomatic boycotts\u201d have been promised by the likes of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/07\/youre-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure\/\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/07\/report-australia-to-play-beijing-olympics\/\">Australia<\/a>, though both nations have confirmed that their actual athletes will be attending the games.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the \u201cboycotts\u201d have been unceremoniously mocked by Chinese sources, with President Biden in particular being a lightning rod for insults.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not invited and not welcome, Mr Biden,\u201d wrote the editor of one Chinese propaganda outlet. \u201cHope you will live long enough to see China boycotting Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly super narcissistic people will regard their absence as a powerful boycott,\u201d wrote the editor of another mouthpiece,&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>. \u201cYou are the people that Beijing residents least want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS politicians keep hyping a \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 without even being invited to the Games,\u201d said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman&nbsp;Zhao Lijian, who went on to say that the move was \u201cgrandstanding\u201d and an attempt at \u201cpolitical manipulation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian so-called \u201cboycott\u201d was met with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202112\/t20211208_10464208.html\">similar<\/a> ridicule from state sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina hasn\u2019t invited any Australian government official to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics. In fact, no one would care whether they come or not,\u201d Chinese&nbsp;Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin remarked. \u201cAustralian politicians\u2019 political stunt for selfish gains has no impact whatsoever on the Olympics to be successfully held by Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK will be sending Olympians to China\u2019s Beijing games, although it will keep officials at home in a poor simulacrum of a boycott, according to Boris Johnson. 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