{"id":1102060,"date":"2021-12-09T10:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1102060"},"modified":"2021-12-09T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T15:28:31","slug":"china-warns-world-attend-beijings-genocide-games-or-pay-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-warns-world-attend-beijings-genocide-games-or-pay-the-price\/","title":{"rendered":"China Warns World: Attend Beijing\u2019s Genocide Games or &#039;Pay the Price&#039;"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fchina-warns-world-attend-beijings-genocide-games-or-pay-the-price%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=1102060&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 warned the world Thursday any nations that sought to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics would \u201cpay the price\u201d for such&nbsp;intransigence.<\/p>\n<p>Washington announced its boycott earlier in the week, saying it was not be sending any diplomats to the event prompted by widespread rights abuses by China and the well documented genocide against the Muslim Uyghur minority in Xinjiang.<\/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>Australia, Britain and Canada followed suit followed suit some 48-hours later, however all stopped short of withholding athletes, as Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/08\/canada-joins-us-and-allies-in-beijings-genocide-games\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless an infuriated Beijing was quick to warn of its response after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/07\/youre-not-invited-china-laughs-off-joe-bidens-olympics-half-measure\/\">laughing off<\/a> the measures started by U.S. President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada\u2019s use of the Olympic platform for political manipulation is unpopular and self-isolating, and they will inevitably pay the price for their wrongdoing,\u201d foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin told reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20211209-china-warns-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-nations-will-pay-a-price\">according to<\/a> AFP.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Britain\u2019s boycott in parliament on Wednesday but joined the other three nations in saying athletes should still attend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not think that sporting boycotts are sensible \u2014 that remains the policy of the government,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19062106\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236816651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19062106\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236816651-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tibetan activists stand in front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters during a protest ahead of the February\u2019s Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, on November 26, 2021 in Lausanne. (FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Canadian officials too would skip the Games, saying his government is \u201cextremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the Chinese government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s leader Scott Morrison made a similar <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/12\/08\/china-australia-joining-bidens-olympics-non-boycott-no-one-cares\/\">announcement<\/a> earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Other countries are weighing their own moves.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>France, which is set to take over the European Council presidency on January 1, said Tuesday it would seek a coordinated E.U. response to the U.S. decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin, however, criticised the U.S. move, saying the 2022 games should be \u201cfree of politics\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has already accepted an invitation by Chinese leader Xi Jinping to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Campaigners have long said at least one million Uyghurs and other Turkic-speaking, mostly Muslim minorities have been forced into concentration camps in China\u2019s northwestern region of Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1129032258065\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bob Costas blasts LeBron James and Colin Kaepernick for silence on communist China&#8217;s human rights atrocities. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9rZZ1smI4w\">https:\/\/t.co\/9rZZ1smI4w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1468795746732462081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Human rights groups and foreign governments have found evidence of mass detentions, forced labor, political indoctrination, torture and forced sterilization. Washington has described it as genocide.<\/p>\n<p>After initially denying the existence of the Xinjiang camps, China later defended them as family training centres aimed at reducing the appeal of Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n<p>In a new report published Wednesday, the Uyghur Human Rights Project \u2014 a U.S.-based advocacy group \u2013- said it had identified more than 300 Uyghur and other Muslim intellectuals believed to be detained in Xinjiang since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Beijing Winter Olympics are scheduled to run from Feb. 4-20. No foreign spectators will be allowed to attend due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><em>AFP contributed to this story<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: skent@breitbart.com<\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China warned the world Thursday any nations that sought to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics would \u201cpay the price\u201d for such\u00a0intransigence. 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