The Week (February 11)
2022/ 02/ 13 by jd in Global News
Beijing’s Winter Olympics are “tarnished,” not just by Covid and human rights abuse. There was hope “when Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008” that the country might “democratize its institutions and join a rules-based international order.” But “there are no such hopes surrounding the 2022 Games. Under ruler-for-life Xi Jinping, who took power in 2012, China has made a sharp turn into unapologetic authoritarianism, with no dissent or forbidden ideas permitted.”
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