Category: Beijing

‘I Cry Every Day’: Olympians Blast Conditions at Beijing’s Quarantine Hotels

Winter Olympic athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 are having enough of Beijing’s quarantine hotels. “My stomach hurts, I’m very pale and I have huge black circles around my eyes. I want all this to end. I cry every day. I’m very tired,” said Russian biathlon competitor Valeria Vasnetsova on Instagram from one of the hotels….


The Last Run: White Says Olympics Will Be His Final Contest

ZHANGJIAKOU, China—This really is it for Shaun White. The three-time gold medalist made it clear that not only will the Beijing Games be his last Olympics, they’ll mark his final contest, too. During a reflective, sometimes emotional news conference Saturday, not far from the halfpipe where he’ll take his last competitive ride, the 35-year-old said…


Chinese Slavery Is Being Protected by Government and Business Interests: Nadine Maenza

Slave labor is being used on a large scale globally, including by many companies right here in the United States. Much of the garment industry, for example, is using slave-picked cotton from China. Now some of these goods have been banned in the United States, but the Chinese regime continues its use of these practices….


Olympic Venues ‘Right Alongside Prison Camps’: Torture, Detention Occurring Miles Away From Beijing Games

NEW YORK—The opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics contained all the pageantry that one might expect from an authoritarian regime eager to use the event to burnish its global image: hundreds of children holding dove-shaped props formed the shape of a heart as they danced on a star-lit stadium, as green and white fireworks…


Dutch Reporter Dragged Away by Chinese Security on Live TV While Covering Beijing Winter Olympics

The much-anticipated Winter Olympics in Beijing got off to an awkward start as a member of the local security forces wearing a red armband accosted and pushed a Dutch reporter who was attempting to report on the event. The incident is the latest example of the communist regime’s intolerance of a free press. To some,…


The Silent Olympics: Beijing Restricts Free Speech

News Analysis In addition to being subjected to constant surveillance, attendees of the Winter Olympics have been warned by the Chinese regime not to speak out on any sensitive topics such as human rights issues. “How did we get to a point where we granted hosting rights to a nation where you can’t use your…


Uphold Morality and Boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics

Commentary Politicians and diplomats planning to attend the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics should think twice about the moral implications of gracing a criminal syndicate that is notorious for its record of causing mass unnatural deaths and of plundering the Chinese people. By any standard, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is a bona fide criminal syndicate….


‘Abusive Intolerance’: Lawmakers Denounce Beijing’s Jailing of 11 Who Shared Pandemic Photos With The Epoch Times

Lawmakers and advocates have rebuked the sentencing of the 11 Chinese citizens imprisoned by Chinese authorities after they supplied materials to The Epoch Times shedding light on the toll of the pandemic in China. The 11, who are all adherents of the persecuted spiritual group Falun Gong, took photos to document life in the early…


Capitol Report (Jan. 24): Thousands March Against Mandates in DC

In the heart of the nation, a massive and diverse crowd marched for freedom from the mandates. We spoke to attendees and speakers to find out why they’re opposed to unilateral mandates for masks and vaccines. There were many highly respected doctors at the “Stop the Mandates” rally in Washington, D.C. We caught up with…


Beijing’s Surveillance Olympics

News Analysis The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hopes to pull off a problem-free Olympics in order to bolster China’s international standing. In practice, this means around 11,000 people from around the world will be subjected to invasive surveillance and an extreme testing and quarantine regime, loaded with political and security risks—which may negatively impact athletes’ performance. The Chinese…