Beijing hits back after US House speaker urges world leaders not to attend 2022 Games over treatment of Uyghurs
China has labelled the US House speaker,
Nancy Pelosi, “full of lies and disinformation” after her calls for a diplomatic boycott of next year’s
Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics on
Human Rights grounds.
“Some US individuals’ remarks are full of lies and disinformation,” a foreign ministry spokesperson, Zhao Lijian, said on Wednesday. “US politicians should stop using the Olympic movement to play despicable political games” or using “the so-called human rights issue as a pretext to smear and slander China”, he added.