The White House announced that no US government officials will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics

“I would like to emphasize that the Winter Olympic Games are not a stage for political manipulation and manipulation,” Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said Monday, responding to the newspaper. reports that a boycott notice is imminent. “US politicians continue to hype a ‘diplomatic boycott’ without even being invited to the Olympics. This wishful thinking and pure grandeur is aimed at political manipulation. It is a grave betrayal of the spirit of the Olympic Charter, a blatant political provocation and a grave insult to the 1.4 billion Chinese people.”