{"id":39147,"date":"2021-11-23T01:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/west-weighs-up-costs-of-boycotting-china-beijing-winter-olympics"},"modified":"2021-11-23T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T16:15:24","slug":"west-weighs-up-costs-of-boycotting-chinas-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39147","title":{"rendered":"West weighs up costs of boycotting China\u2019s Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: calls growing amid Xinjiang allegations and Peng Shuai fallout, but Beijing takes slights very seriously<\/p>\n<p>Boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics in February may seem a simple, symbolic diplomatic gesture \u2013 when put alongside the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/jun\/10\/china-uyghur-xinjiang-dystopian-hellscape-says-amnesty-international-report\">allegations of labour camps<\/a> in Xinjiang province and the apparent sexual exploitation of the Chinese tennis star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2021\/nov\/21\/pressure-on-johnson-to-toughen-stance-on-china-over-peng-shuai-episode\">Peng Shuai<\/a> \u2013 but such is the contemporary economic power of China that the step will only be taken after much agonising.<\/p>\n<p>The threats and economic boycotts that Australia, Canada and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/21\/china-downgrades-diplomatic-relations-with-lithuania-over-taiwan-row\">more recently Lithuania<\/a> have suffered at the hands of the Chinese for challenging Beijing\u2019s authority in one way or another are not experiences other countries will want to copy lightly.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/22\/west-weighs-up-costs-of-boycotting-china-beijing-winter-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: calls growing amid Xinjiang allegations and Peng Shuai fallout, but Beijing takes slights very seriouslyBoycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics in February may seem a simple, symbolic diplomatic gesture \u2013 when put alongside the allegations of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,319,2427,4,203,1716,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-foreign-policy","category-peng-shuai","category-politics","category-sport","category-winter-olympics","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39148,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39147\/revisions\/39148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}