Xi Jinping – Joe Biden (Lapresse)
Beijing 2022, China: “US diplomatic boycott a political farce”
A “political farce”. There China thus replies to the “so-called ‘diplomatic boycott‘”of the United States in view of the Winter Olympic Games scheduled for next February a Beijing. Administration Biden has confirmed in the past few hours that it will not send official representatives. There will be only American athletes. “The decision of the government of the United States mirrors their mentality from Cold War – reads a statement released in the last few hours by Beijing’s representation at the United Nations and attributed to the spokesman for the mission – The US wants to politicize sport, create divisions and provoke clashes “. For the Asian giant, this is an” approach that it will not find supports “and which is” doomed to failure “, which” will leave “the US” increasingly isolated and which is at odds with the times “. Beijing insists on Games” open to all athletes and guests “and on the fact that they will be “a success” because this “does not depend on the participation of a handful of government officials from other countries”.
Beijing 2022 Olympics, New Zealand: diplomatic boycott like the US
There New Zeland like the United States. “We have already made it clear that we will not be at ministerial level – said the vice premier Grant Robertson to the microphones of Tvnz in reference to the Winter Olympic Games scheduled for next February in Beijing – We made it clear to China, I think in October, and for us it is a decision taken. “A choice therefore preceding the one announced yesterday by Washington, stemming from” various factors “, mostly due to due to fears over the coronavirus pandemic, he said, reiterating that “we have clarified on several occasions to the China our human rights concerns “.
Beijing 2022 Olympics, Japan evaluates diplomatic boycott
Follow the United States and do not send official representatives to Winter Olympic Games scheduled for next February in Beijing. The Japan it thinks about it and will decide on the basis of its “national interests”. After the announcement arrived last night from Washington, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida explained that “we will take our decisions from the point of view of our national interests”, evaluating – he added, quoted by the Kyodo agency – the potential impact on diplomacy and Olympics themselves. The decision, stressed Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, will come taking into account “various factors” and “Japan believes it is important that the universal values of the international community” be “guaranteed in China too”.
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