UK, Canada joined of Beijing Winter Games like USA

 'whether or not they come or not, nobody cares,' says China's foreign Ministry, terming boycott 'political posturing'

Canada joined Australia, Britain and the united states in a diplomatic boycott of the winter Olympics in Beijing on Wednesday, with China calling the boycotts "political posturing" and a smear marketing campaign.

the usa became the primary to announce the boycott this week, pronouncing on Monday that its authorities officials would now not attend February's Beijing Olympics due to China's human rights "atrocities", weeks after talks aimed at easing tense family members among the arena's two largest economies.

China on Tuesday stated america would "pay a charge" for its choice and warned of countermeasures but gave no details. The global Olympic Committee (IOC) sought to play down the growing diplomatic boycott.

Canadian prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated Beijing could be privy to long-status Western concerns approximately human rights in China. "(So) it should not be a marvel that we determined now not to ship diplomatic representation."

Trudeau's decision appears sure to feature tension to a dating already strained over the detention of Huawei technology Co Ltd chief economic Officer Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant.

Meng have been below residence arrest in Vancouver, wherein she had fought extradition to the us for nearly 3 years on bank fraud expenses. She was released and again to China in September.

Canadians, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who had been arrested by Beijing rapidly after Meng's 2018 detention, had been additionally freed in September.

almost as Trudeau spoke, IOC President Thomas Bach stated the Committee had continually been involved with the participation of the athletes within the Olympic video games.

So "we welcome the support for his or her Olympic groups these kind of governments were emphasising," he informed a video news conference. "that is giving the athletes reality and this is what the IOC is set."

asked earlier in parliament if his united states might observe Washington's lead, British prime Minister Boris Johnson stated: "There can be effectively a diplomatic boycott of the wintry weather Olympics in Beijing, no ministers are predicted to attend and no officers." "I do now not think that wearing boycotts are sensible and that stays the policy of the government," he brought, indicating that British athletes will nevertheless compete.

China said it had now not invited British officials.

"The chinese language government has not invited government ministers or officials from the United Kingdom to wait the Beijing winter Olympics," a spokesman for the chinese language embassy in London stated.

"Making an problem out of the presence of government officers at the Beijing iciness Olympics is in essence a political smearing campaign."