Beijing dismisses no-show and says
American officials had not been invited in the first place, as other countries consider their positions
China has reacted angrily to the US government’s diplomatic boycott of next year’s
Winter Olympics, as more countries said they would consider joining the protest over Beijing’s
Human Rights record and
New Zealand announced it would not send representatives to the Games.
Chinese officials dismissed Washington’s boycott as a “political posturing and manipulation” and tried to discredit the decision by claiming that US
diplomats had not even been invited to
Beijing in the first place.