US announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

Those calling for a boycott are “ grandstanding” and should stop “ so as not to affect the dialogue and cooperation between China and the United States in important areas,” Zhao Lijian, China’s foreign ministry prophet, before said. 

 The Biden administration blazoned on Monday that US officers won’t attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing after China pledged unidentified “ countermeasures” against any similar politic boycott. 

 Those calling for a boycott are “ grandstanding” and should stop “ so as not to affect the dialogue and cooperation between China and the United States in important areas,” Zhao Lijian, China’s foreign ministry prophet, earliersaid.However, China will take bent countermeasures,” he said at a news conference, “ If the US insists in wilfully adhering to its course. 

 US President Joe Biden said last month that he was considering such a politic boycott to protest China’s mortal rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against nonage Muslims. 

 The US boycott would not help its athletes from contending in the games. The US is next due to host an Olympics in 2028 in Los Angeles, raising the question of how China might respond in the interim. Beijing says it opposes the politicisation of sports, but it has penalized American sports leagues in the history, including the National Basketball Association, for running afoul of its political red lines.

 Hong Kong warns WSJ of‘ incitement’in editorial 

 Hong Kong’s government has advised the Wall Street Journal it may have broken the law by publishing an tract that said casting blank ballots was one of the “ last ways” for residers to state dissent. The warning letter, which the US media outlet published on Monday, comes as China’s ruling Communist Party transforms the business mecca into commodity more nearly suggesting the authoritarian landmass.