China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, also criticized the diplomatic boycott saying that China will take „resolute countermeasures.“
The editor-in-chief of the Global Times, a Chinese state-run newspaper, responded to the U.S.’s diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Winter Olympics and said that Americans are who „Beijing residents least want to see“ at the games. „Only super narcissistic people will regard their absence as a powerful boycott,“ Hu Xijin said in a tweet on Monday. „Most of those US govt officials are close contacts of the COVID-19 patients according to China’s standard, moreover picky and pretentious. You are the people that Beijing residents least want to see.“ On Monday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. will be diplomatically boycotting the 2022 Olympics, which are set to be held in Beijing in February. „The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games given the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China’s] ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,“ Psaki said during a press briefing.
