Beijing time:2021-12-15 11:46
[NTD News December 15, 2021, Beijing time]Accountable to the CCP’s persecution of human rights, the United States announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics on December 7. At present, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand of the “Five Eyes Alliance”, and European countries Belgium, Austria, Lithuania, Estonia and Kosovo have announced that they will not send officials to attend. The transnational parliamentary coalition on China policy, composed of 200 parliamentarians, issued a document stating that “without human rights, there would be no Olympics” is becoming more and more powerful.
“No Rights. No Games.” (No Rights. No Games.), Belgian Congressman Samuel Cogolati posted a slogan on social media on the 14th, saying that the Belgian government has joined the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told him that he would not send officials to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
However, according to La Libre Belgique, the Belgian newspaper (La Libre Belgique) quoted that the Belgian government spokesperson deliberately played down the color of diplomatic boycott and pointed out that the reason for not sending representatives to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics is because Belgium has a limited number of athletes and has not sent a delegation to participate in the Winter Olympics in the past. The second factor is the consideration of the epidemic, not because of diplomatic resistance to China’s human rights issues.
The call for boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics continued. Outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), protesters continued to demonstrate in the past week, “Boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympics” and “Human rights are not a political game.”
The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China Policy (IPAC), composed of members of parliament from various countries, issued a document on the 14th stating that Belgium will join Australia, Canada, Estonia, Lithuania, Kosovo, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States to jointly boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics. He also emphasized that “without human rights, there would be no Olympics” is becoming more and more powerful.
In addition, Austria’s newly appointed Chancellor Karl Nehammer (Karl Nehammer) received an exclusive interview with the German newspaper Die Welt and stated that Austria does not send high-level officials to attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, but he emphasized that this is not a protest or boycott. It is because of the COVID-19 epidemic.
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