'A tyrannical regime is hosting the Olympics and we’re supposed to, what, sit back, drink a beer, and watch curling?' writes columnist mattklewis about the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
, “The Swedes have suggested that the conditions in the mountains are perilously cold. A Polish skater says she was living in fear in a Beijing isolation ward and has ‘cried until I have no more tears.’ The Finns have claimed an ice hockey player is being kept in Covid quarantine for no reason. And the Germans? They are frustrated that there is no hot food at the downhill skiing.”
Putin and Chinese leader-for-life Xi Jinping also met on Friday and signed a joint statement that warned NATO to stay away from Ukraine. The backdrop for this is Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border—troops that might or might not cross that border before the Olympics end. We are now involved in what will likely be a multi-generational struggle against a hostile regime with 1.4 billion citizens. Solving that geopolitical nightmare may be the most important project of the 21st century.—must realize that this may well be the existential threat of our time. We are competing with an evil empire, and while it may not yet be time to declare the Chinese government our enemy, they most certainly are our adversary.
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