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Gov't To Boycott Beijing Winter Olympics, Cites COVID-19

NEW ZEALAND

New Zealand's Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has announced that it will be joining the United States in a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games taking place in Beijing in Feburary 2022. However, unlike the US which is not sending any diplomatic representatives to the games due to what WH Press Sec Jen Psaki stated is the "ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses," the New Zealand gov't is citing the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for not sending any politicians to the games.

  • New Zealand's gov't has come into some criticism from politicians from other 'Five Eyes' intelligence network partners for its percieved lack of robustness in standing up to Beijing. While this move is predicated on the spread of the coronavirus, the fact that the announcement has come before decsions from stauncher critics of China such as Australia and the UK will not go unnoticed in Beijing or Washington, D.C.

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