China Daily, February 4th. On January 25, Liu Pengyu, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the United States, sent a letter to the editorial board of the Washington Post regarding the negative editorial of the Washington Post in relation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, some of which were published in the newspaper 1 Commentary on the 30th.
The letter emphasized that "the Olympic Games are a sports event, not a political stage".
The letter was in response to the Washington Post's January 22 editorial "China's message to Winter Olympic athletes: Silence and ski."
The letter said that Beijing was about to usher in a "Winter Olympic moment".
China will take this opportunity to vigorously carry forward the Olympic spirit of "unity and fraternity, fair competition and mutual understanding", and dedicate a simple, safe and wonderful Olympic Games to the world.
The spokesperson of the embassy emphasized in the letter that the Olympic Games are a sports event, not a political stage.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is an arena for promoting the Olympic spirit and should not be subject to political interference and manipulation.
In the name of "freedom of speech", it is a blatant moral kidnapping to force athletes to disregard the rules of the International Olympic Committee for their "foreign attitudes". Especially, the rhetoric against China in the editorial is based on the long-term China-related lies spread by the US government and some media. .
The spokesperson of the embassy gave a special example. The Uyghur population in China's Xinjiang increased from 8.34 million in 2000 to 11.62 million in 202. The average annual growth rate is much higher than the average growth rate of the national minority population in the same period.
If there is a "genocide", how could the Uyghurs have such a large population growth?
The letter concludes that the Beijing Winter Olympics will be a great success, and every participant is a winner.
Those who try to politicize sports will fail miserably.