Austria will not send any high-ranking politicians to the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing next year but new Chancellor Karl Nehammer has stressed it is due to the coronavirus pandemic rather than for diplomatic reasons. “This is not a diplomatic protest or boycott, but solely due to the fact that Covid requirements in China are rightly very high,” Nehammer told the Welt paper on Tuesday. Coronavirus rules in China means politicians could not even meet with athletes of their own country in the February 4-20 Games and travelling across the world to still talk by video chats makes little sense. “…

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