Joe Biden answered the question about the boycott of the Beijing Olympics with the words “The delegation is me”
US President Joe Biden confused journalists his answer to the question of whether Washington will send its delegation to the Winter Olympics in Beijing. His words are quoted by the journalistic pool of the White House.
When asked if the US would send a delegation to the Olympics, Biden replied with three words: “The delegation is me.” As perplexed journalists from the presidential pool note, it was unclear what the American leader meant and whether he understood the question. Biden did not explain his statement.
Related materials00: 01 – December 3, 2020 “The world will slide into disaster” Trump brought relations between the United States and China before the Cold War. What should Biden do now? 00:02 – June 25, 2020 A machine of oversightsIn June, Republican Congressman Michael McCall, along with party colleagues and Democratic representatives, appealed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with a demand to move the 2022 Games from Beijing. Politicians believe that it is impossible to organize the Olympics in a country where the genocide of Uighurs and other national minorities is taking place. Prior to that, Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi called on the international community to declare a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympic Games in China and to refuse to participate in international sports competitions.
On November 16, The Washington Post reported that the US presidential administration intends to announce diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the publication, the technical solution has not yet been finalized, but Joe Biden was given appropriate recommendations. According to administration sources, the American leader will receive them before the end of the month.
In turn, the spokesman for the US President's press service, Andrew Bates, said that he had nothing to add on this topic. In addition, he stressed that this problem was not raised during the conversation between the American leader Joe Biden and the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping, which took place on November 15.
China's reaction
In turn, the Chinese Foreign Ministry criticized the United States for trying to move the 2022 Olympics from Beijing. Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that the Chinese authorities are unhappy with the actions of the United States, as they “seriously undermine the Olympic spirit and infringe on the interests of athletes around the world.”
He also assured that all reports of forced labor and genocide in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), because of which the European countries and the United States are calling for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics, is a lie of “certain small elements opposed to China.”
Diagnosed
Commenting on the calls of American politicians to boycott the Olympic Games in China, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova noted that it is not the first time Washington has been discussing a boycott against China and other countries.
They probably have such a disease all the time to discuss boycotts and how and how to fuck someone
Maria ZakharovaOfficial representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry
She also stressed that sports and the Olympic movement are “about achievements, about willpower, about a sense of peace”. According to Zakharova, in Russia less attention should be paid to what American politicians are discussing in the Senates and Congresses.
Earlier, the Foreign Ministry spokesperson called the discussion of this topic in Washington “incredible vulgarity.” She also recalled the failed “boycott concept” deployed by the United States and Europe against the 2014 Olympics and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Beijing Winter Olympics will be held from 4 to 20 February 2022. In the event of a boycott, the head of the White House and other Washington officials will not attend the Olympic Games in the Chinese capital.