Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy
- Written by: Yan Bennett, Assistant Director for the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Zhang Ling/Xinhua/APAside from fake snow and COVID-19, the Beijing Winter Games are controversial for many reasons.
They are a potent political symbol of the Chinese state’s ambitions and authority. Held just a year after the triumphalist 100-year anniversary of the Communist Party’s founding, General Secretary Xi Jinping is using the...
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