Beijing Winter Olympics

Human Rights 01/27/22, 18:26

Republican members of Congress asked NBC on Tuesday about how much influence  the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will have on its coverage of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, questioning how the NBC network will handle "China's history of human rights violations," according to the ...

Insights 01/27/22, 15:20

Beijing city officials said that 30 Covid-19 infections were found in testing two million residents on Jan. 24, less than two weeks before the Winter Olympics begin. According to a report, local authorities have confirmed about six new infections in the Fengtai district in southern Beijing. The total number of cases ...

Insights 01/26/22, 13:59

Beijing’s billions of dollars of investment on the Winter Olympics is facing another challenge besides the uninvited COVID-19 outbreaks nationwide. According to Bloomberg, analysts are warning that China’s Olympic dream could be sabotaged if Russia chooses to invade Ukraine and divert international attention away. The paper wrote that current Chinese leader ...

China 01/19/22, 14:06

The so-called "Genocide Olympics" set to begin in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4 have generated massive protests around the world, but now an official says athletes protesting on their territory are subject to "certain punishments." Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allows on-field gestures if they do not disrupt order and ...

China 12/24/21, 12:06

Peng Shuai, the Wimbledon tennis champion and the French Open women's doubles champion, has changed her words, denying that she was sexually assaulted by former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, according to Creaders.net. Last November 2021, Peng revealed that Zhang had sexually abused her in a post on Weibo which was quickly ...

China 12/20/21, 21:50

U.S. Lawmakers are calling on NBCUniversal, a news and entertainment network to honor their broadcasting roles that include providing background coverage of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses. Senator Jeff Merkley and Representative James McGovern, the chair and co-chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC), a bipartisan and bicameral committee ...

China 12/20/21, 16:57

Experts are saying the Beijing Olympics scheduled for the next two months would be similar to that of Nazi Germany 1936 Summer Olympics. Rafael Medoff, the founder of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, told Voice of America that these two governments saw the games as an opportunity to ...

China 12/12/21, 03:24

China Communist Party diplomats have two different reactions on the same issue. When The White House announced its decision to boycott the Beijing Winter Olympics on the afternoon of Dec. 6. The CCP embassy in the United States responded before the CCP media reacted to the U.S. boycott. Yet, they contradict ...

Australia & Oceania 12/10/21, 06:37

By Dec. 8, Seven countries, including the United States, Lithuania, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Scotland, and New Zealand, had officially announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics. 1. The UK Boris Johnson, The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that Britain would boycott the diplomacy of the Beijing Winter Olympics. They ...

Australia & Oceania 12/06/21, 02:42

Australia's NewsWire reported on December 3rd that Eric Abetz, a Liberal senator, launched a "diplomatic boycott" to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. He has been supported by the opposition Labor Party. Senator Penny Wong from the Labor Party said she would work with the Australian government to reach a consensus ...