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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 07 December 2021

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Author: Newstalk ZB

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China wants us to join America’s diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the boycott earlier today.

Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/louisa-wall-ipac-co-chair-on-whether-new-zealand-should-join-the-us-in-boycotting-the-winter-olympics/

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 07 December 2021

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Author: Reuters

The United States says it will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, after China pledged unspecified "countermeasures" against any such diplomatic boycott.

Last month, US President Joe Biden said he was considering such a diplomatic boycott amid criticism of China's human rights record, including what Washington says is genocide against minority Muslims in its western region of Xinjiang.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/winter-olympics-us-government-officials-to-boycott-next-year-s-beijing-games.html

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 06 December 2021

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Author: Reuters

Myanmar's deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi was jailed for four years on Monday on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions, a source familiar with the proceedings said, in a case critics dismissed as a farce.

President Win Myint was also sentenced to four years in prison, the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, as the court delivered its first verdicts against civilian leaders detained in a February 1 military coup.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/myanmar-court-sentences-deposed-leader-aung-san-suu-kyi-to-four-years-in-jail.html

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 06 December 2021

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Author: Reuters

China will take "countermeasures" in protest against a planned U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Olympics if necessary, Beijing's foreign ministry said on Monday.

The Biden administration is expected to announce on Monday that U.S. government officials will not attend the 2022 Olympics in Beijing, a source familiar with the situation said Monday, confirming earlier reports by CNN and NBC.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/12/china-threatens-retaliation-to-planned-us-boycott-of-beijing-olympics.html

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Just threatening to take "countermeasures" to any country that boycott's is enough for me to just boycott the Bejing Olympics. If you start threatening like it doesn't help people then start to dig their heels in and stick to their word...

Personally while the CCP are in power they should have never got the rights to host either the summer or winter Olympics after the way the treat other countries, and especially the way they treating the Uyghurs and slowly performing genocide on them. CCP can get fucked.

Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 04 December 2021

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Author: China Unsensored

Japan's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has warned that Japan and the US must defend Taiwan if China tries to invade it as Japan moves to more formally recognize Taiwan as a country.

NBA player Enes Kanter is making headlines again, this time for his name change and his beef with LeBron James over China.

Hong Kong students are going to see a change to their curriculum that's more in line with China's worldview after China essentially took back Hong Kong in 2020.

Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3z-oANZ604

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Details: Parent Category: News; Category: World; Published: 01 December 2021

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Author: RNZ

The New Zealand government is deploying dozens of Defence Force and police personnel to Honiara in the coming days, "to help restore peace and stability".