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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
Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacyZhang Ling/Xinhua/AP

Aside 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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