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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian
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CHINA hit back yesterday at the US decision to stage a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, saying Washington was acting “out of ideological prejudice and based on lies and rumours.”
The Joe Biden administration said on Monday that its diplomats would stay away from the February games in protest at what it said were human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.
The boycott does not extend to US athletes, and Washington said it would be supporting them as normal.
The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE