{"id":499201,"date":"2022-02-04T19:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=199992"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:02:38","slug":"us-olympic-boycott-not-about-uyghurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/04\/us-olympic-boycott-not-about-uyghurs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Olympic Boycott Not About Uyghurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using a sports boycott to make a point that Washington still has plenty of options has actually resulted in the opposite. Only three other countries have agreed to join the American diplomatic boycott, a negligible number if compared to the 20 African countries that\u00a0refrained\u00a0from participating in the 1976 Montreal Summer Games in protest of New Zealand\u2019s participation. The latter was criticized for validating the South African apartheid regime when their rugby team had\u00a0toured\u00a0South Africa in that same year.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-olympic-boycott-not-about-uyghurs\/\">US Olympic Boycott Not About Uyghurs<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/us-olympic-boycott-not-about-uyghurs\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a sports boycott to make a point that Washington still has plenty of options has actually resulted in the opposite. Only three other countries have agreed to join the American diplomatic boycott, a negligible number if compared to the 20 African &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,5722,7979,5040],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499201"}],"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\/12199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499469,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499201\/revisions\/499469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}