Beijing hits back after US House speaker urges world leaders not to attend 2022 Games over treatment of Uyghurs
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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.