© Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool via REUTERSPoland's President Andrzej Duda arrives for the NATO summit at the Alliance's headquarters, in Brussels, Belgium, June 14, 2021.
A U.S. boycott to protest against China's human rights record has been joined by Australia, Britain, Canada and Japan.
Comment: There's no evidence that China is guilty of the 'human right abuses' as claimed by the West.
"Poland is a sovereign nation and decides its own politics towards China. ... Poland is an ally of the United States but Poland also has a very friendly relationship with China," Duda's foreign affairs advisor Jakub Kumoch told Reuters.
Officials have told Reuters that, as Poland's relationship with the United States has worsened under President Joe Biden's administration, it's no longer in Poland's interests to continue criticising China simply to please the Americans.
The Polish president's relationship with China has been positive recently, with him making a surprise appearance at the 17+1 summit with China as other central European nations sent lower ranking officials. Duda has said Poland plans to take advantage of its geographical location to boost its role in trade between Europe and China.
Poland's state news agency PAP first reported on Duda's plan to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing.
The Netherlands and Denmark have also pledged to join a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
China denies rights abuses and has condemned the boycott as betraying Olympic principles.
Comment: It's notable that numerous officials in Poland have made some rather bold moves to reassert their country's sovereignty despite the increasing pressure from both the EU and US to submit to the globalist agenda:
- Romania's Constitutional Court rejects primacy of European law, follows similar refusal by Poland
- Poland rushes through law that fixes loophole blocking foreigners from owning media companies, angering US
- Britain to deploy troops to Poland to 'help with construction of border wall', Russia sends troops to Belarus for war games
- Berlin wants EU to be 'Fourth German Reich', says Poland's populist leader
- EU declares itself 'LGBTIQ freedom zone' in response to towns in Poland & Hungary declaring themselves 'LGBTIQ propaganda free-zones'
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