{"id":422524,"date":"2021-12-07T23:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T23:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/08\/australia-joins-beijing-winter-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:07:57","slug":"australia-joins-beijing-winter-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/07\/australia-joins-beijing-winter-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"China accuses Australia of \u2018posturing\u2019 over diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says athletes will compete in next year\u2019s Games because sport and politics should not mix<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has confirmed his country\u2019s officials will not attend the Beijing Winter Olympics, joining the US in a diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Games and prompting accusations from Beijing of political posturing. <\/p><p>Morrison told reporters in Sydney it was \u201cnot surprising\u201d, given the deterioration in the diplomatic relationship between Australia and China, that officials would not attend next year\u2019s winter Games.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/08\/australia-joins-beijing-winter-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/dec\/08\/australia-joins-beijing-winter-olympics-diplomatic-boycott-over-chinas-human-rights-abuses\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Morrison says athletes will compete in next year\u2019s Games because sport and politics should not mixGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingThe Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has confirmed his country\u2019s officials will not a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1207,1340,1208,1730,190,6,19376,516,1315,31551],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423502,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422524\/revisions\/423502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}