Sydney – Australia will not send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, joining a strike by American politicians at the event.
“Australia will not back down from the strong position we had in representing Australia, and it is not surprising that we would not have sent Australian officials to those games,” he said.
After months of negotiations, the White House on Monday decided not to send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s “cruelty” of human rights.
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“Biden officials will not submit any official submissions or submissions to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Paralympic Games, given the ongoing PRC killings and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House correspondent Jen Psaki told reporters at the time. . a press conference in Washington on Monday.
Psaki said moving ahead with an American lawyer or legal representation would successfully treat the Beijing Games, which are set to begin on February 4, “as a business as usual” despite China’s “human rights abuses and cruelty” in the far west of Xinjiang. region.
“We will not do that,” Psaki said.
American athletes will still be allowed to participate in the Olympics.