Next Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping will take on the role of host and kick off the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Beijing. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, between February 4 and 6, Si will hold welcome banquets for dignitaries who arrive at the opening.
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The participation was confirmed by more than 30 heads of state, prime ministers, members of the royal family and heads of international organizations. During this period, Jinping will also attend a number of bilateral events, she said Ministry spokesman Huu Chunjing on Friday.
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The guest list includes six representatives from Europe, five from Central Asia, three from the Middle East, two from South America and others from Asia, the Pacific and Africa. Chinese state medium The Global Times reported that representatives of “less than thirty” attended the Tokyo Summer Games.
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The numbers of diplomatic participants have reduced diplomatic boycotts. Western politicians and activists began calling for them because of the poor human rights situation in China.
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The United States announced the first boycott of “atrocities on human rights.” Over the next few days, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom joined. China condemned their move as a “political pose and a slander campaign.” She warned that the country would pay for its decisions.
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In the end, the Czech government will not send its representatives to the Olympic Games. The Czech Olympic Committee did not even invite any guests from among politicians, partners or former athletes to the Games. Senate representatives on Monday compared holding the Olympic Games in China to the Olympics in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany.
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Chinese media, however took advantage greetings of President Miloš Zeman to the Olympians. The president said in a short video that he was against abusing the Olympic idea for political purposes.
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“We experienced it a long time ago in both Moscow and Los Angeles. There is now a more subtle form of this abuse, where a boycott is announced only by politicians and not by athletes. To be honest, if some political buffoon players are not at the Olympic Games, nothing terrible will happen, “said Zeman. His words were immediately used by the Chinese press.
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The first confirmed guest of the Winter Olympics was Russian President Vladimir Putin. The European Union did not agree on a unified approach to the diplomatic boycott, so representatives of Poland, Serbia, Luxembourg, Monaco and Greece will appear among the European representatives.
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“We are sovereign countries and we decide our own foreign policy. We are an ally of the United States, but we also have a very friendly relationship with China. ” reasoned decision Jakub Kumoch, Adviser to Polish President Andrzej Duda for Foreign Relations.
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China’s state television CCTV released an updated guest list on Friday, which also includes dignitaries from Cambodia, Singapore, five Central Asian nations, Mongolia, Pakistan, Argentina, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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There are also figures considered controversial in the West, including Egyptian President Abdal Fattah Sisi and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman of Saudi Arabia. After the biggest protests in the country since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kazakh President Kasym-Zhomart Tokaev will also come to Beijing to “rest”.
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Praise Kyrgyz President Sadyr Zhaparov received from China, who “moved to a home office prior to his forthcoming visit to China” to “comply with epidemiological security measures in the midst of the ongoing outbreak of the virus.”
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UN spectators will include UN Secretary-General António Guterres, UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization.
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A surprise for Putin
The Olympic Games will also be an opportunity for personal meetings between statesmen. The announced event is an interview between Si Jinping and Vladimir Putin. According to the Kremlin, it will be a debate about the security situation in Europe, which will encounter the accumulation of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border and global fears of an invasion.
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Russian Ambassador to China Andrei Denisov formerly announcedthat a “surprising” gift for relations between China and Russia will be prepared at the pre-Olympics meeting. He did not give details, but added that the two sides were converging in the field of energy trade and would cooperate in space exploration. “We think President has prepared a surprise for President Putin. At the moment, we do not know what surprise it will be, “he said. “But I think there will be some.”
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Moscow and Beijing recently deniedthat Si Jinping asked Putin not to get involved in the military conflict with Ukraine during the Winter Olympics.
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Putin should thus become the first head of state to meet his Chinese counterpart in person since the covid-19 pandemic broke out. This “primacy” among foreign dignitaries otherwise belongs to the President of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, who, together with Xi Jinping, met on Tuesday. The Chinese leader has not left the country since visiting Myanmar in January 2020. It is not yet clear whether he will meet with other state leaders in person.
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From European countries, Lithuania and Denmark have joined the diplomatic boycott. Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Latvia, Sweden, Estonia, New Zealand and Japan refused to participate with reference to the risks of covid-19 transmission or for other reasons.
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Despite a diplomatic boycott, the United States said it was to China will send officials to “provide consular and diplomatic security services” for American athletes. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will run until February 20. As expected, athletes from more than 90 countries should participate. The Paralympic Games will take place during March.
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