{"id":117800,"date":"2021-04-08T14:50:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117800"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T06:50:43","slug":"white-house-says-us-not-discussing-boycott-of-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117800","title":{"rendered":"White House says US not discussing boycott of Beijing Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/dims4\/USNEWS\/ed5f0d5\/2147483647\/thumbnail\/640x420\/quality\/85\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.beam.usnews.com%2F06%2F9c823e1efa4dcbd1c39957d6861f70%2Ftag%3Areuters.com%2C2021%3Anewsml_LYNXMPEH361GB%3A12021-04-07T180936Z_1_LYNXMPEH361GB_RTROPTP_3_OLYMPICS-2022-TEST.JPG\" alt=\"Reuters\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The US\u00a0is not discussing a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to alleged human rights abuses, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed. We have not discussed and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners,&#8221; Psaki said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A State Department spokesman indicated on Tuesday in an exchange with reporters that the U.S. was discussing whether to skip the Olympics in Beijing as part of a boycott with allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some Republicans have called on the Biden administration to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing over China&#8217;s treatment of Uighurs and its crackdown on rights in Hong Kong. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, April 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The US\u00a0is not discussing a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to alleged human rights abuses, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. &#8220;Our position on the 2022 Olympics has not changed. We have not discussed and are not discussing any joint boycott with allies and partners,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}