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Pelosi 'Full Of Lies': China Following Winter Olympics Boycott Call

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The Chinese gov't has hit back at US Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after her comments yesterday to the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

  • In the commission meeting Pelosi stated that she would support a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing, China, saying, ""We cannot proceed as if nothing is wrong about the Olympics going to China...Let's have a diplomatic boycott if in fact this Olympics takes place. I don't know if it's possible because we have not succeeded in the past...let's not honor the Chinese government by having heads of state go to China."
  • AFP is reporting this morning that in response the Chinese gov't has called Pelosi 'full of lies'.

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