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China will respond to Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic boycotts with serious sanctions towards any countries that pull out, according to the editor-in-chief of the state-backed nationalist tabloid Global Times.
“Boycotting 2022 Beijing Winter Games, an unpopular idea, won’t receive wide support,” Hu Xijin wrote on Twitter on Sunday.
“IOC and athletes will both oppose it, and China will seriously sanction any country that follows such a call.”
His words accompanied a screenshot of an article on The Guardian website that was headlined “MPs urge British Olympians to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Games”.

Boycotting 2022 Beijing Winter Games, an unpopular idea, won’t receive wide support. IOC and athletes will both oppose it, and China will seriously sanction any country that follows such a call. pic.twitter.com/3cOSb2wMdS
— Hu Xijin 胡锡进 (@HuXijin_GT) February 7, 2021

There have been growing calls for boycotting the Winter Olympics, which celebrated their one-year countdown last Thursday.
Several Canadian MPs signed an open letter calling for a boycott last week and asking for the Games to be relocated from the Chinese capital.
Everything you need to know about Beijing 2022
A coalition of 180 rights groups called for a boycott ahead of the one-year countdown in an open letter published last Wednesday. The Chinese foreign ministry dismissed the letter.
Much of the focus has been on the treatment of Uygur Muslims in the far Western Xinjiang region.
Several US Republican senators led a resolution to move the Beijing Winter Games last week, following the United States’ designation that China’s actions in the region was “genocide” in the last days of the Donald Trump presidency. The US has said it had no intention of telling its athletes not to go.


Beijing 2022, which will be the largest Winter Games yet with 109 medals on offer, is set to begin on February 4 next year.
This will be China’s first time hosting the Winter Olympics, after holding the Summer Games in Beijing in 2008. The city will be the first to host both Summer and Winter Games.


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epa08984326 Tibetans living in-exile and activists belonging to different NGOs hold placards during a protest against alleged Chinese atrocities and to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, at McLeod Ganj near Dharamsala, India, 03 February 2021. Activists from different NGOs demonstrated in a street play in the main square of Mcleodganj, upper Dharamsala to show their anger and disappointment and as a symbolic gesture that Chinese President Xi and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Bach join hands in ignoring the sufferings of Tibetans.  EPA-EFE/SANJAY BAID

This photo taken on May 31, 2019 shows watchtowers on a high-security facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained, on the outskirts of Hotan, in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. - As many as one million ethnic Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities are believed to be held in a network of internment camps in Xinjiang, but China has not given any figures and describes the facilities as "vocational education centres" aimed at steering people away from extremism. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY CHINA-XINJIANG-MEDIA-RIGHTS-PRESS,FOCUS BY EVA XIAO

Winter Games 2022: Xi Jinping checks Olympics progress amid boycott calls and coronavirus outbreak

Chinese President Xi Jinping discusses Olympic preparations during a visit to the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing on Monday. Photo: Xinhua

(210118) -- BEIJING, Jan. 18, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, talks with athletes and coaches while visiting the National Alpine Skiing Center in Yanqing District, Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 18, 2021. Xi on Monday inspected the preparatory work of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing. (Xinhua/Yue Yuewei)

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Editor of nationalist tabloid Global Times says ‘IOC and athletes will both oppose it’ in response to British MPs calling for stars to stay away
One-year countdown to the start of next year’s Winter Olympics sees increase in calls to move event from Chinese capital



One-year countdown to the start of next year’s Winter Olympics sees increase in calls to move event from Chinese capital.


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Beijing 2022: ‘China will seriously sanction’ any country that boycotts Winter Olympics, says state-backed media chief

Editor of nationalist tabloid Global Times says ‘IOC and athletes will both oppose it’ in response to British MPs calling for stars to stay away One-year countdown to the start of next year’s Winter Olympics sees increase in calls to move event from Chinese capital

Editor of nationalist tabloid Global Times says ‘IOC and athletes will both oppose it’ in response to British MPs calling for stars to stay away

One-year countdown to the start of next year’s Winter Olympics sees increase in calls to move event from Chinese capital