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,…
BEIJING IS SHORTLY to become the first city in the world to have hosted both the Olympics and the Winter Olympics. There has been 14 years between the 2008 games (bid campaign slogan: “New Beijing, Great Olympics) to the 2022 winter games (“Together for a Shared Future”).
Although the…