China: Australia Joins Boycott Of Winter Olympics
Australia joins the US diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. This was announced by Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Sydney. The decision was made as a result of failed efforts to reopen diplomatic channels with China to speak about human rights abuses in Xinjiang, as well as government measures in Beijing to restrict or block imports of Australian goods, said Morrison.
Australian officials will therefore not travel to China for these games
The formal boycott of Australia threatens relations with China, its largest trading partner, to deteriorate further. Tensions had escalated after the Canberra government denied Chinese telecommunications company Huawei access to its 5G broadband network and called for an independent investigation into the origin of Covid-19. The People's Republic responded with import tariffs on Australian goods, including coal, beef, barley and wine.
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The United States announced on Monday that it would not send diplomatic representatives to the sports event in Beijing in February 2022 because of human rights violations in China. China announced that the US would "pay the price" for its decision and warned of "strong countermeasures".
Vice-President of the EU Parliament calls for a complete boycott
The European politician Nicola Beer pronounced a complete boycott of the Winter Games . The European Union should "not only stay in the slipstream of the USA, but stand up for the observance of human rights on its back legs and speak out in favor of a complete boycott of the Winter Games," said the Vice-President of the EU Parliament in the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The diplomatic boycott demanded by the USA is coming late, said the FDP politician, and is "the least" that can be expected from the West. The Olympic Winter Games in China are "a wrong stage in the wrong place".
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Clear signals from the West in the direction of Beijing are long overdue, said Beer, referring to the " brutal suppression of the Uyghurs and the Chinese aggression against Hong Kong and Taiwan". It could not be in the interests of either the US or the EU to "quietly watch Beijing at the Winter Games as a gigantic propaganda staging, while China's apparatus openly and behind the scenes seriously violates human rights," stressed the Parliamentary Vice-President.
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