Category: 2022 Beijing Winter Games

Japan Says It Will Not Send Government Delegation to Beijing Olympics

December 24, 2021
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Japan will not send a government delegation to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to the human rights situation in China, a government spokesman said on Friday, following the actions of several Western nations that have also withheld officials’ attendance at the Games. Instead of sending government officials, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said Japan…

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South Korea Says No Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

December 13, 2021
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his country will not participate in the U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, given that South Korea requires China’s help to “enable denuclearization” on the Korean Peninsula. “We have not received a request from any other country, including the United States, to participate in a diplomatic…

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O’Toole Urges Canada to Join Allies in Diplomatic Boycott of Beijing Olympics

December 6, 2021
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Canada should join its allies in a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in protest of the Chinese communist regime’s human rights abuses, Conservative leader Erin O’Toole said on Dec. 6. O’Toole said he has been speaking with Canadian Olympic Committee athletes and representatives on how to express “our profound displeasure with the…

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US Responds to Report of China Weapon Test

October 18, 2021
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America’s defense chief reacts to news of a potential nuclear threat after Beijing reportedly tested a new weapon that can help it avoid the U.S. missile defense system. A Chinese fugitive dies as police close in. Despite allegedly killing two neighbors, his desperate story has won public sympathy. And his death triggered an outrage on…

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Human Right Activists Stage Protest at Beijing Olympics Torch-Lighting Ceremony

October 18, 2021
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Three human rights activists holding a Tibetan banner that read “No genocide games” managed to sneak into the site where the Olympic flame was lit in Greece before being detained by police. The flame was lit on Monday at the Temple of Hera in southern Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, ahead of the Beijing 2022…

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IOC Accepts CCP’s Offer of China-Made Vaccines, Team Japan Won’t Take Them

March 14, 2021
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President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Thomas Bach announced on March 11 that the IOC has agreed to purchase China’s COVID-19 vaccine to administer to willing participants of the Tokyo Olympics this summer and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. The Japanese Olympic Committee said Japan was not consulted regarding the decision by the…

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IOC Accepts CCP’s Offer of China-Made Vaccines; Team Japan Declines

March 14, 2021
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International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said the organization has agreed to purchase China’s COVID-19 vaccine to administer to willing participants at the Tokyo Olympics this summer and the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022. However, Japan’s athletes won’t be taking the China-made vaccines after the country’s Olympic committee said Japan wasn’t consulted regarding the…

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