{"id":1106155,"date":"2021-12-10T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106155"},"modified":"2021-12-10T13:29:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T18:29:05","slug":"even-taiwan-wont-boycott-chinas-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/even-taiwan-wont-boycott-chinas-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Taiwan Won&#039;t Boycott China&#039;s 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\">14<\/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%2Feven-taiwan-wont-boycott-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=1106155&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\">The government of the sovereign state of Taiwan issued remarks this week asserting it \u201crespects\u201d the decision by President Joe Biden not to send politicians to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and would consider a similar move, but suggested a boycott of the event is not on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, through White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/06\/white-house-confirms-u-s-will-play-chinas-genocide-olympics\/\">announced<\/a> this week that the United States would participate in the 2022 Winter Games \u2013 a major disappointment to human rights activists and the victims of China\u2019s brutal communism regime. Human rights groups around the world have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/04\/human-rights-activists-urge-biden-join-boycott-2022-beijing-olympics\/\">urged<\/a> the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for years to reconsider honoring the Chinese Communist Party with hosting duties in light of the long list of human rights atrocities Xi Jinping and his cronies are guilty of, most prominently the crime of genocide.<\/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>Given the IOC\u2019s enthusiastic support of the communist regime despite China\u2019s crimes, activists then turned to governments and encouraged them to boycott the event.<\/p>\n<p>No government has agreed to boycott the Olympics at press time. Biden proposed as a sort of compromise a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d in which government officials would not attend. As government officials are not athletes and do not compete in the Olympics, their absence is not a boycott and has no effect on the event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/12\/08\/china-australia-joining-bidens-olympics-non-boycott-no-one-cares\/\">Australia<\/a> and the United Kingdom have joined the United States non-boycott, prompting the Chinese Foreign Ministry to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/12\/08\/china-australia-joining-bidens-olympics-non-boycott-no-one-cares\/\">declare<\/a>, \u201cno one cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Beijing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/30\/china-biden-diplomatic-boycott-of-olympics-impossible-because-u-s-diplomats-not-invited\/\">responded<\/a> to Biden\u2019s move by highlighting its lack of effect on the Olympics and emphasizing that Chinese officials never invited American politicians to the Olympics, so their absence cannot be considered a \u201cboycott\u201d but simply an expression of the desires of the host.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19085170\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237129874.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19085170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237129874-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A man (R) wearing a face mask with the image of China\u2019s President Xi Jinping joins other human rights activists holding Olympic Rings as they protest in Taipei against the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games to mark Human Rights Day on December 10, 2021. (SAM YEH\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asked about the Biden move, the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) told reporters that the country was preparing an \u201cappropriate response\u201d to the move. The nation\u2019s Presidential Office then clarified that the government would make a statement, but was \u201cmaking sure that Taiwanese athletes\u2019 participation in the Beijing Winter Olympics will not be affected,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/focustaiwan.tw\/sports\/202112070021\">Channel News Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The statement appeared to confirm that Taiwan was not considering a boycott of the Olympic Games. It is also unclear how Taiwan would participate in a \u201cdiplomatic boycott.\u201d The communist government of China does not recognize the reality of Taiwan\u2019s sovereignty, insisting the island is a rogue \u201cprovince\u201d of China despite its entirely independent government, military, and legal institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing considers the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen, and her administration a separatist terrorist organization with no legal authority on the island.<\/p>\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<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Taiwanese officials traveling to Beijing may face arrests or disappearances at the hand of the Communist Party and, if Beijing did not invite American officials, it is highly unlikely it would honor Tsai\u2019s administration with an invite it could \u201cboycott.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like many around the world, human rights groups in Taiwan urged the government to boycott the Games. On Wednesday, several were joined by Taiwanese lawmakers who also pressured their government to participate in a boycott.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (\u8303\u96f2) compared the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s repression to Adolf Hitler\u2019s Nazi regime, warning that if Taiwan remained silent about the Olympics at this moment, nobody would help the country in the future,\u201d Focus Taiwan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taiwannews.com.tw\/en\/news\/4369551\">reported<\/a>. The DPP is Tsai\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, another participant,&nbsp;Taiwan Association for China Human Rights (TACHR) Director&nbsp;Yang Sen-hong warned that Taiwan could become an \u201cinternational orphan\u201d if it participated in the Games because it would \u201cbe seen as capitulating in the face of violence and authoritarianism,\u201d according to Focus Taiwan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19085194\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237130241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19085194\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237130241-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Human rights activists hold banners as they protest in Taipei against the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games to mark Human Rights Day on December 10, 2021. (SAM YEH\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thanks to years of Chinese bullying, most of the world\u2019s countries do not recognize Taiwan as a country, as doing so prompts Beijing to sever all diplomatic ties with that country. Similarly, the IOC does not let Taiwan compete as a country. Instead, Taiwan must participate under the name \u201cChinese Taipei\u201d and cannot fly its national flag at the Games. Taiwan staged a national referendum in 2018 asking citizens if they wanted the government to demand the IOC recognize it as \u201cTaiwan,\u201d but voters <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2018\/11\/taiwan-referendum-chinese-taipei-scores-own-goal\/\">opted<\/a> against the move.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Beijing\u2019s growing influence, Taiwan participated in the Olympics under its formal name, the Republic of China, prompting communist China to boycott through 1979. Taiwan had its <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/08\/taiwan-sorry-chinese-taipei-is-having-a-fantastic-olympics\/\">best<\/a> Olympics performance ever during the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, which took place in 2021 as a result of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"amp-wp-fe3f5cc\" data-amp-original-style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiwan has faced growing threats of violence from China since Xi Jinping seized power in 2013. Xi issued a violent warning in 2019 that Taiwan\u2019s government and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong would \u201c<\/span>perish, with their bodies smashed and bones ground to powder,\u201d and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/10\/14\/bones-ground-to-powder-xi-jinping-threatens-gruesome-death-for-hong-kong-taiwan\/\">continued<\/a> to issue similar threats since. Chinese state media repeatedly issues warnings of a \u201creunification by force\u201d \u2013 \u201creunification\u201d is a misnomer, since Beijing has never governed Taiwan \u2013 and the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) has increased its violations of Taiwanese airspace significantly in the past two years.<\/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=1639219462160000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0nbIzAFBYqoFujUwZYEBiR\">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=1639219462160000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1FtA5LeZaIK0U2p_HVfomA\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of the sovereign state of Taiwan issued remarks this week asserting it \u201crespects\u201d the decision by President Joe Biden not to send politicians to the 2022 Beijing Winter &#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-1106155","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\/1106155","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=1106155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106155\/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=1106155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}