Australia will join the U.S. in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics over human rights concerns, PM Morrison says.
in the region, “particularly in relation, most recently, to our decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.”“There’s been no obstacle to that occurring on our side, but the Chinese government has consistently not accepted those opportunities for us to meet,” Morrison said.rights abuses against ethnic minorities
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin denounced Morrison's announcement as “political posturing," but did not directly threaten the “resolute countermeasures" China vowed to exact on the U.S. Referring to the U.S., Wang said Australia was “blindly following certain countries in their steps to confuse right and wrong without a bottom line."
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