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….
Beijing’s Surveillance Olympics
January 24, 2022
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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…
State Department Condemns Beijing for Imprisoning 11 Falun Gong Practitioners Weeks Before Olympics
January 21, 2022
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The U.S. State Department on Jan. 21 condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to prison terms as long as eight years for exercising their religious beliefs. The Jan. 14 sentences were handed down just weeks ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The State Department is calling on…
Team USA Prepares to Enter the Enemy’s Backyard
Commentary The Beijing Winter Olympics is about to begin. Is anyone really excited? But plenty of people are concerned and for valid reasons. The British Olympic Association (BOA) is so concerned by the cyberthreat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that it’s now offering “burner phones” to all members of the GB team. A…
Beijing Warns of ‘Punishment’ if Foreign Athletes Protest at Olympics
January 19, 2022
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A Beijing 2022 official has cautioned foreign athletes against speaking out during the upcoming Winter Olympics, warning that any behavior that crosses the Chinese regulations could potentially get them ejected out of the Games. “Any expression that is in line with the Olympic spirit I’m sure will be protected, and anything and any behavior or…
Exiled Artist Ai Weiwei on Beijing Games
January 19, 2022
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Ai Weiwei is one of China’s most famous artists, and many regard him as one of the world’s greatest living ones. Working with the Swiss architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, he helped design the Bird’s Nest Stadium, the centerpiece of Beijing’s 2008 Summer Olympics. The stadium in northern Beijing, instantly recognizable for its weave…
Omicron Reaches Beijing, Deepening Uncertainty for Winter Olympics
The fast-spreading Omicron variant has hit China’s capital Beijing amid emerging COVID-19 clusters across the country, raising pressure on the regime to keep the virus at bay just three weeks before the city is due to stage the Olympic games. Beijing on Jan. 15 reported its first locally transmitted Omicron case from Haidian—the second-largest district…
Experts Reveal the Shady Facts Behind China’s Grid Management Strategy
January 10, 2022
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News Analysis Since the pandemic, Chinese media often contributed its much questionable pandemic containment “success” to grid management, which was said to be an advantage of the socialist Chinese society. By March 2020, around 4.5 million grid staff served as the first line of defense since the pandemic, “like in a wartime state,” state-run media reported;…
Experts Reveal How China Uses ‘Grid Management’ System to Surveil Populace
January 10, 2022
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News Analysis Since the pandemic, Chinese media often contributed its much questionable pandemic containment “success” to “grid management,” which was said to be an advantage of the socialist Chinese society. By March 2020, around 4.5 million grid staff served as the first line of defense since the pandemic, “like in a wartime state,” state-run media…
Genocide Is Not Important Enough for a Full US Olympic Boycott
Commentary Ongoing Uyghur genocide in China’s Xinjiang region should have been a sufficient reason for the United States and other nations to boycott the 2022 Winter Games. The XXIV Olympic Winter Games, to be held from Feb. 4 to Feb. 20 in Beijing, is a big deal for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While the…
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