{"id":525755,"date":"2021-05-19T13:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=525755"},"modified":"2021-05-19T13:06:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T17:06:35","slug":"pelosi-calling-on-biden-admin-to-conduct-dipolmatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-calling-on-biden-admin-to-conduct-dipolmatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi Calling On Biden Admin To Conduct \u2018Dipolmatic Boycott\u2019 Of Beijing 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\">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%2Fpelosi-calling-on-biden-admin-to-conduct-dipolmatic-boycott-of-beijing-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=525755&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-3000.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling on the Biden administration and other world leaders to conduct a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Olympics rather than a full boycott, allowing athletes to compete but barring Biden administration officials from traveling to witness the Games in person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday called for a \u2018diplomatic boycott\u2019 of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing in response to China\u2019s human rights record,\u201d CNBC reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot proceed as if nothing is wrong about the Olympics going to China,\u201d Pelosi Congress\u2019 Human Rights Commission<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China on Tuesday, in a hearing on whether the United States should refrain from having an official presence at the Beijing Winter Olympics due to take place in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi noted that full boycotts of the Olympic Games typically punish athletes but achieve little in the way of political goals. A \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d might have the opposite effect, the Speaker said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor heads of state to go to China, in light of a genocide that is ongoing while you\u2019re sitting there in your seats, really begs the question: What moral authority do you have to speak about human rights any place in the world if you\u2019re willing to pay your respects to the Chinese government as they commit genocide?\u201d Pelosi noted.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi\u2019s harshest words were reserved for corporations who oppose restrictions on importing Chinese goods or partnerships with Chinese companies that use forced labor. The Speaker lashed out at those who \u201clook the other way on China\u2019s abuses out of concern for their bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we don\u2019t speak out against human rights violations in China for commercial reasons, we lose all moral authority to speak out for human rights anywhere,\u201d Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi did not name any corporations by name, though she referenced a \u201cbipartisan bill targeting the use of forced labor in the Xinjiang region,\u201d per CNBC. She may have withheld naming names, though, because her campaign donors are employed by some of China\u2019s most prominent American partners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/members-of-congress\/nancy-pelosi\/summary?cid=N00007360&#038;cycle=2020&#038;type=C\">According to Open Secrets<\/a>, Pelosi received nearly $80,000 in donations from individuals who work for or are affiliated with the Walt Disney Company, which thanked the government of China for allowing it to film brief snippets of B-roll for its feature film \u201cMulan\u201d in the Xinjiang region, in mountains that are reportedly adjacent to forced labor camps. She\u2019s also a favored candidate of employees of Alphabet, the parent company for Gooogle, which had <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/08\/01\/google-china-search-engine-censorship\/\">planned to launch a censored search engine in China<\/a>, and Microsoft, which has a three-decade relationship with the country.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi herself, though, has been a vocal opponent of Chinese influence, authoring a bill, presented most years, that would revoke China\u2019s \u201cmost favored nation\u201d trade status. She did, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3113467\/nancy-pelosi-defends-colleague-eric-swalwell-amid-report\">defend her House colleague Rep. Eric Swalwell<\/a> (D-CA), when he was discovered to have had a relationship with a woman who turned out to be a Chinese spy.<\/p>\n<p><i>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\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling on the Biden administration and other world leaders to conduct a \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Beijing Olympics rather than a full &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278568,"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-3000.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pelosi Calling On Biden Admin To Conduct \u2018Dipolmatic Boycott\u2019 Of Beijing Olympics","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525755","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-3000.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Pelosi Calling On Biden Admin To Conduct \u2018Dipolmatic Boycott\u2019 Of Beijing Olympics","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525755","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=525755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}