China has reacted angrily to the US government\u2019s diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Winter Olympics, as more countries said they would consider joining the protest over Beijing\u2019s human rights record and New Zealand announced it would not send representatives to the Games.<\/p>\n
Chinese officials dismissed Washington\u2019s boycott as a \u201cposturing and political manipulation\u201d and tried to discredit the decision by claiming that US diplomats had not even been invited to Beijing in the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China has reacted angrily to the US government\u2019s diplomatic boycott of next year\u2019s Winter Olympics, as more countries said they would consider joining the protest over Beijing\u2019s human rights record and New Zealand announced it would not send representatives to the Games. Chinese officials dismissed Washington\u2019s boycott as a \u201cposturing and political manipulation\u201d and tried […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[882,18,1396],"class_list":{"0":"post-231488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"category-world","9":"tag-beijing-olympics","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-winter-games"},"yoast_head":"\n