THERE WERE GLOBAL campaigns from the United States to make the Beijing Winter Olympics the “least-watched” Winter Olympic Games in history. Yet the International Olympic Committee indicated these were the most-watched such games—a line happily echoed by Chinese people on social media and China's state media. What’s the real story?
As usual, simplification is misleading,…
SPEND LESS, ACHIEVE MORE – that was the aim of the financial controllers of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and so far it looks like they’ve done it. The total budget has come in at US$3.07 billion, making it usually good value, since the 2018 games cost US$12.2 billion.
How did they do it?
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AFTER 14 YEARS, Beijing is playing host to the Olympic Games again. While most Olympic cities in the world suffered staggering financial losses, or were plagued by bribery and other charges, China has spared no effort in demonstrating to the world its heart-warming hospitality, distinctive culture, and extraordinary capability for organizing huge events.
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PARTICIPANTS IN THE Winter Olympics are the latest target for Australia-based Badiucao, Western media’s favorite anti-China cartoonist. His latest “jokes” show sports people committing murder, spreading the coronavirus and so on.
As with much criticism of China, the artist claims to oppose only the Chinese government but in practice attacks Chinese people in general. …
2022 Winter Games will be the greenest, most eco-friendly ever Robots and automation will keep athletes and visitors safe Viewers will be treated to 5G broadcasting and 8k high-definition China’s technology skills will be visible at multiple levels Hong Kong will need to learn from the event and follow suit
CHINESE NEW YEAR will…