{"id":395590,"date":"2021-04-07T08:58:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=395590"},"modified":"2021-04-07T08:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T12:58:35","slug":"biden-not-considering-boycotting-beijing-olympics-despite-china-issues-after-supporting-mlb-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-not-considering-boycotting-beijing-olympics-despite-china-issues-after-supporting-mlb-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Not Considering Boycotting Beijing Olympics, Despite China Issues, After Supporting MLB Boycott"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fbiden-not-considering-boycotting-beijing-olympics-despite-china-issues-after-supporting-mlb-boycott%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=395590&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\/04\/fb_image-682.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Biden administration said Tuesday evening that their position on the upcoming 2022 Olympics in Beijing \u201chas not changed\u201d and they have not discussed any boycotts.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department issued a statement saying it was not considering a boycott after spokesman Ned Price suggested earlier in the day that one was possible in response to China\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed,\u201d a senior State Department official told CNBC. \u201cWe have not discussed and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A former senior Treasury official told CNBC that boycotting the Olympics would be seen as a \u201cCold War statement\u201d and that \u201cit\u2019s better to go there and dominate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s better to be Jesse Owens than the Soviets in \u201984,\u201d the official added.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is likely to face intense backlash if he does not at least seriously consider boycotting the Beijing Olympics after he threw his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-endorses-moving-mlb-all-star-game-out-of-georgia-lauds-athletes-using-sports-to-push-politics\">support<\/a> last week behind Major League Baseball withdrawing their All Star Game from Atlanta over a new election law, which he has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/04\/02\/president-biden-recidivist\/\">lied<\/a> about.&nbsp;Atlanta potentially lost more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/georgia-county-that-voted-for-biden-to-lose-100-million-over-mlb-relocating-game-after-biden-remarks-report\">$100 million in revenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new host city, Denver, is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mlb-moves-all-star-game-to-colorado-which-has-voter-id-laws-significantly-less-diverse-than-georgia\">less racially diverse<\/a> than Atlanta, which is relevant because the Left pushed for MLB to ditch Atlanta over a law they claimed intended to suppress the minority vote.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-biden-admits-he-has-not-confronted-china-about-pandemic-lies-changes-tune-on-mlb-rhetoric\">admitted<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday that he has not confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping about China\u2019s lies during the coronavirus pandemic, despite saying on the campaign trail that he would do so.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.980519480519\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A year ago, Biden promised he would confront China, and wouldn&#8217;t take their word about the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Now he&#8217;s openly admitting he hasn&#8217;t confronted Xi for China&#8217;s lies<\/p>\n<p>Amazing what a difference a year makes.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QWHdme2g9B\">pic.twitter.com\/QWHdme2g9B<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IIF0pkmQWH\">https:\/\/t.co\/IIF0pkmQWH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZachParkinson\/status\/1379539713019817985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Daily Wire highlighted on Monday China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2020\/12\/29\/china-coronavirus-pandemic-lied-five-reads-2020\/\">lies<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/wuhan-medics-we-were-told-to-cover-up-human-transmission-and-death-covid\">early coverup<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9\">delay<\/a>&nbsp;in releasing critical facts, online&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/19\/technology\/china-coronavirus-censorship.html\">censorship<\/a>, promotion of baseless&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/18\/asia\/china-coronavirus-disinformation-fort-detrick-intl-hnk\/index.html\">conspiracy theories<\/a>, and silencing of medical professionals during the pandemic. Even&nbsp;the Biden administration has expressed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joint-who-china-report-urges-no-further-probe-into-extremely-unlikely-lab-leak-theory-u-s-officials-are-pushing-back\">serious doubt<\/a> about a recently released WHO report from inside China about the origins of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>China also operates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/28\/21333345\/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang\">concentration camps<\/a> for Muslims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/china-is-detaining-christians-in-secret-facilities-forcing-them-to-renounce-their-faith-or-be-tortured-report\">tortures Christians<\/a>, engages in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/china-forcefully-harvests-organs-detainees-tribunal-concludes-n1018646\">forced organ harvesting<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/usa\/us-intensifies-crackdown-china-intellectual-property-theft#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Commission%20on,the%20world&#039;s%20principal%20IP%20infringer.%E2%80%9D\">steals<\/a> American intellectual property.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/cnn-report-leaked-docs-prove-china-underreported-pandemic-numbers-hid-previously-unreported-number\">highlighted<\/a>&nbsp;different reports on the statistics that China released on their own coronavirus cases and deaths:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11.326180257511\">\n<p><em>U.S. officials have indicated that they believe that China&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says\">\u201cintentionally\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;underreported their true numbers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-official-gives-fox-news-stunning-estimate-on-chinas-real-coronavius-numbers\">\u201cby at least a factor of 50.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;British officials reportedly told Prime Minister Boris Johnson early in the pandemic that China could have underreported their numbers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/british-scientific-advisers-claim-chinas-outbreak-could-be-15-to-40-times-worse-than-reported-report-says\">\u201cby a factor of 15 to 40 times.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;The Washington Post reported in April that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000\">\u201cevidence\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;coming out of Wuhan suggested that the real death count was over 40,000, which comes as China still claims that it only has a little over 4,600 deaths total nationwide. A conservative estimate in April from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI)\u2014which gave China every benefit of the doubt when coming up with their calculations, and then some\u2014suggested that China severely and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/aei-releases-conservative-estimate-of-chinas-true-outbreak-numbers-its-staggering\">\u201cdeliberately\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;underreported their numbers and that China\u2019s true numbers at the time had to be at least 2.9 million infections with well over 100,000 deaths.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dni-china-allowed-coronavirus-to-spread-to-whole-world\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in December that the Chinese Communist Party, when they knew about the coronavirus\u2019s transmissibility, \u201callowed it to go from China to the rest of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey intentionally and deliberately downplayed it in their country, pressured World Health Organizations, and allowed it to spread to the rest of the world,\u201d Ratcliffe added. \u201cAnd that didn\u2019t just have the effect of wrecking the global economy. It didn\u2019t just have the effect of killing millions of people, including hundreds of thousands of Americans. It also had grave political consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration said Tuesday evening that their position on the upcoming 2022 Olympics in Beijing \u201chas not changed\u201d and they have not discussed any boycotts.The State Department issued a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311782,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-682.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Not Considering Boycotting Beijing Olympics, Despite China Issues, After Supporting MLB Boycott","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-682.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Biden Not Considering Boycotting Beijing Olympics, Despite China Issues, After Supporting MLB Boycott","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395590","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}