An Australian senator is pushing back on Beijing’s claim that it allegedly does not care whether foreign representatives attend its upcoming Winter Olympic Games while denying concerns about its human rights records. Countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Lithuania, and the United Kingdom are to stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics, which starts in less than 60 days, which means governments will not send representatives at a ministerial level to Beijing. “I would ask all leaders of countries that are not competing, to not go to the Olympics, any tourists that were thinking of watching the Olympics, please don’t go,” Senator Eric Abetz, who chairs the foreign affairs, defense, and trade committee in the Parliament of Australia, told The Epoch Times on Dec. 6. “Say to the dictatorship: ‘We know what you’re up to, and we do not respect [it],’” the senator, who is known for …
‘This Is Childish’: Australian Senator on Beijing’s Put-Down of Olympic Boycotts
December 9, 2021
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