{"id":39550,"date":"2021-12-07T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/china-attacks-us-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-games-as-travesty-of-olympic-spirit"},"modified":"2021-12-07T16:34:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T07:34:48","slug":"china-attacks-us-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-games-as-travesty-of-olympic-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39550","title":{"rendered":"China attacks US diplomatic boycott of Winter Games as \u2018travesty\u2019 of Olympic spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing dismisses no-show and says American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countries consider their positions<\/p>\n<p>China has reacted angrily to the US government\u2019s diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Winter Olympics, as more countries said they would consider joining the protest over Beijing\u2019s human rights record and New Zealand announced it would not send representatives to the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese officials dismissed Washington\u2019s boycott as a \u201cposturing and political manipulation\u201d and tried to discredit the decision by claiming that US diplomats had not even been invited to Beijing in the first place.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/07\/china-attacks-us-diplomatic-boycott-of-winter-games-as-travesty-of-olympic-spirit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing dismisses no-show and says American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countries consider their positionsChina has reacted angrily to the US government\u2019s diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Winter Olympics, as more countr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,203,45,47,1716,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-sport","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","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\/39550","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39573,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39550\/revisions\/39573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}