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Interesting timing though. The Olympics started today.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony will take place Feb. 4 in a world that has changed dramatically since the last time the Chinese capital held the Olympic Games.
The 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics marked China’s “coming out” as a global superpower. One third of the world tuned in to the $100 million event. Some 15,000 performers participated in a production that showcased the best of Chinese history and culture. An estimated 91,000 people, including U.S. President George W. Bush and other world leaders, attended the event, which Steven Spielberg had called the “grandest spectacle of the new millennium.”
In contrast, the Beijing 2022 Games will be the second Olympics to take place under strict COVID-19 restrictions as the global pandemic enters its third year. Foreign fans are banned, as are nearly all local spectators. And geopolitical tensions hang over the Beijing Winter Olympics: The U.S. and some allies announced a diplomatic boycott amid criticism of China’s human rights record, and athletes are being warned against speaking out while in the country.
But China vowed it will stage a historic opening ceremony nonetheless, including a cauldron lighting that is “unprecedented in the over 100-year history of the Olympic Games,” with performers from across the country of 1.4 billion people.
Here’s what you need to know about the 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony will take place Feb. 4
If you were offered a return to normality, identity politics fading away, msm reporting accurately and unbiased, all those pressure cooker distractions just disappearing like a bad dream but at the cost of declaring war on China, would you grab it with one or two hands?
The alternative is more treasonous acts from within courtesy of the Democratic party, their allies and their financial backers.
Those are the two sides of the coin that you must now flip.
Still, just before the Beijing Olympics is no coincidence.
Don't hate on Metallica what're you a communist?
originally posted by: 19Bones79
If you were offered a return to normality, identity politics fading away, msm reporting accurately and unbiased, all those pressure cooker distractions just disappearing like a bad dream but at the cost of declaring war on China, would you grab it with one or two hands?
If you were offered a return to normality, identity politics fading away, msm reporting accurately and unbiased, all those pressure cooker distractions just disappearing like a bad dream but at the cost of declaring war on China, would you grab it with one or two hands?
If you got high ranking China supporters they wouldn't just magically disappear and get behind the war effort.