{"id":32262,"date":"2021-05-19T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/19\/nancy-pelosi-calls-for-us-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-winter-olympics"},"modified":"2021-05-19T21:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T12:14:23","slug":"china-calls-nancy-pelosi-full-of-lies-after-call-for-winter-olympics-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32262","title":{"rendered":"China calls Nancy Pelosi \u2018full of lies\u2019 after call for Winter Olympics boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing hits back after US House speaker urges world leaders not to attend 2022 Games over treatment of Uyghurs<\/p>\n<p>China has labelled the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, \u201cfull of lies and disinformation\u201d after her calls for a diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics on human rights grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome US individuals\u2019 remarks are full of lies and disinformation,\u201d a foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, said on Wednesday. \u201cUS politicians should stop using the Olympic movement to play despicable political games\u201d or using \u201cthe so-called human rights issue as a pretext to smear and slander China\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/may\/19\/nancy-pelosi-calls-for-us-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-winter-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing hits back after US House speaker urges world leaders not to attend 2022 Games over treatment of UyghursChina has labelled the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, \u201cfull of lies and disinformation\u201d after her calls for a diplomatic boycott of next yea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2185,203,45,47,631,2052,1716,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-nancy-pelosi","category-sport","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-uyghurs","category-winter-olympics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32263,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32262\/revisions\/32263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}