List of diplomatic boycotts grow for Beijing Winter Olympics, with Canada now joining the US, UK, Australia and Lithuania
List of diplomatic boycotts grow for Beijing Winter Olympics, with Canada now joining the US, UK, Australia and Lithuania
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Lol. Who knew that diplomats got to attend the olympics at taxpayer expense? They can watch it on tv like the rest of us.
Lithuania continuing to be based as usual
“It is important to send a ~~strong~~spineless signal to China,” Joly said. “Human rights violations are not acceptable.”
Then boycott the event completely.
When is Lithuania going to get the Anglo club pass? They can have New Zealand’s spot
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And what is that? The diplomatic equivalent of slapping someone’s hand with a feather?
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Olympic should bring nations together and now this
Meanwhile Norway refused to do it, after all the posturing about the Qatar World Cup, they don’t feel the same about China…
I wish Germany would do it. But we most likely won’t. Our politicians still think too much money to be made there even thoee the economy is tanking
Good. Now boycott Qatar as well where more than 6500 people have died:
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/27/972056906/report-reveals-more-than-6-500-migrant-workers-have-died-in-qatars-world-cup-pre?t=1638949285093
Diplomatic boycott is stupid. If they were serious about the boycott they would boycott the games full stop. The athletes could compete independently or under respective national OCs like Russian athletes did at the Tokyo games. Or they would compete under the IOC flag/skip opening ceremony like many countries did at the Moscow Olympics.
AUKUS
Based Lithuania
That’s bad. The Olympics shouldn’t be politicized. This is not the spirit of the Olympics at all. But it’s just “diplomatic boycott”, and I have no clue what this means.
> The diplomatic moves by Canada, the U.S., Britain and Australia do not affect their athletes’ ability to compete in the games.
Good.
Ah, a new Coalition of the Willing seems to be forming up..