{"id":708,"date":"2021-12-07T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T09:40:51","slug":"the-united-states-on-monday-announced-a-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-2022-beijing-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"The United States on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (AFP) :<\/strong> The United States on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics citing human rights abuses, in a move that will not stop US athletes from competing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC&#8217;s (People&#8217;s Republic of China) ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,&#8221; White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The athletes on Team USA have our full support. We will be behind them 100 percent as we cheer them on from home.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (AFP) : The United States on Monday announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics citing human rights abuses, in a move that will not stop US athletes from competing. &#8220;The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[480,478,479],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-beijing-olympics","tag-boycott","tag-olympics"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asiafirstdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/China-Beijing-Olympic-and-Protest-for-Boycott.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiafirstdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}