The United Kingdom will not send its political representatives to Winter Olympics in Beijingannounced this Wednesday the prime minister Boris Johnson, joining the diplomatic boycott advocated by the United States alleging human rights violations by China.
“As I have said before, we do not support sports boycotts, but there are no plans for … ministers to attend the Winter Olympic Games“, he affirmed in Parliament, underlining that” there will be a diplomatic boycott “to which Australia also joined on Wednesday.
In none of the cases, diplomatic boycott affects sports contests nor does it prevent the participation of British, American or Australian athletes.
“Nobody cares whether or not political representatives are coming,” said a spokesman for Chinese diplomacy, Wang Wenbin, reacting to the Canberra announcement on Wednesday. “His political maneuvers and his little tricks will not change anything to the success of the Olympic Games“he added.
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