{"id":1150040,"date":"2021-12-24T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150040"},"modified":"2021-12-24T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T15:34:11","slug":"china-admits-13-million-people-lockdown-is-a-panic-move-before-genocide-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-admits-13-million-people-lockdown-is-a-panic-move-before-genocide-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"China Admits 13-Million-People Lockdown Is a Panic Move Before Genocide Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-admits-13-million-people-lockdown-is-a-panic-move-before-genocide-olympics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1150040&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">China\u2019s state-run&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> propaganda newspaper admitted on Thursday that the regime\u2019s decision to lock down Xi\u2019an, a city area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-reports-100-new-covid-19-cases-dec-22-vs-77-day-earlier-2021-12-23\/\">13 million<\/a> people, over the Chinese coronavirus cases was a response to \u201cpressure\u201d over keeping the atmosphere safe for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics, scheduled to take place in February, have been under intense scrutiny for years over China\u2019s atrocious human rights record, in particular the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people of East Turkistan. Activists, victims of Chinese oppression, and, increasingly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/22\/champion-snowboarder-backs-genocide-olympics-boycott-i-dont-even-want-to-be-called-an-olympian-anymore\/\">athletes<\/a>&nbsp;are calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to relocate the event to a country that respects fundamental human rights. In the event the IOC does not do so \u2013 and the IOC has loudly backed doing business with the Chinese Communist Party \u2013 supporters of the anti-Olympics movement have urged countries to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/09\/04\/exclusive-beijing-olympics-boycott-leader-woke-athletes-silence-on-china-shows-double-standards\/\">boycott<\/a> the event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_15778090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Uyghur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15778090\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Uyghur.jpg\" alt=\"Supporters and members of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement rally outside the White House to urge the United States to end trade deals with China and take action to stop the oppression of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples August 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to human rights concerns, however, some have voiced concerns that China, the country where the Chinese coronavirus pandemic originated, has failed to keep the spread of the disease under control and sending athletes to the Olympics may endanger their health. The National Hockey League (NHL) in America <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/ap-source-nhl-to-withdraw-from-olympics-after-covid-surge\/\">announced<\/a> this week it would not send its players to Beijing to play, citing coronavirus concerns.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19204114\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lintao-Zhang_Getty-Images-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19204114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Lintao-Zhang_Getty-Images-2.jpg\" alt=\"NHL China\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Xi\u2019an is about 680 miles from Beijing, in China\u2019s Northwest. Beijing itself has locked down some neighborhoods recently, however, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/13\/china-bans-officials-olympics-neighborhood-fleeing-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">banning<\/a> Communist Party officials from leaving the capital before the Olympics for fear that it may look like a panic flight over uncontrolled coronavirus spread.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the day before Christmas Eve, officials in Xi\u2019an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/23\/china-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site\/\">announced<\/a> a city-wide lockdown, banning residents from leaving their homes. The timing is notable in part because of Xi\u2019an place in early Christian history: it is the home of an artifact known as the Xi\u2019an Stele, which <a href=\"https:\/\/australian.museum\/learn\/cultures\/international-collection\/chinese\/nestorian-stele-inscription-b11298\/\">documents<\/a> the arrival of Christian missionaries to China in 635 AD \u2013 more than a thousand years before the current state religion, communist atheism.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times \u2013&nbsp;<\/em>emphasizing that Xi\u2019an is home to the Terracotta Warriors of first emperor&nbsp;Qin Shi Huang in an apparent attempt to distract from the city\u2019s Christian history \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1243267.shtml\">admitted<\/a> on Thursday that the lockdown was in part a measure to protect the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cXi\u2019an has seen its epidemic triggered by imported sources spread to Beijing, which increased the epidemic prevention and control pressure on China for the Beijing Winter Olympics,\u201d the outlet observed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChinese public health experts said in addition to its grim and complicated epidemic situation, several factors led to the necessary decision of lockdown of Xi\u2019an, including the upcoming major holidays of New Year\u2019s Day and Spring Festival, and the Beijing Winter Olympics,\u201d the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported, \u201cand as multiple community transmission chains were unidentified.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> reported that the Communist Party had already started purging local members in Xi\u2019an as retribution for the public health embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDisciplinary authorities in Xi\u2019an have punished 26 people and four local Party organizations and other institutions since December 4 when the city reported an imported case from Pakistan,\u201d the outlet asserted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>China has repeatedly blamed foreign sources for its ongoing coronavirus outbreak, despite minimal evidence supporting this claim. The current outbreak appeared to begin in October, when the Communist Party encouraged national travel to celebrate the founding of the Party, a phenomenon the Chinese regime has dubbed \u201cred tourism.\u201d A tour group from Shanghai first tested positive with the Chinese coronavirus while on tour in Inner Mongolia. While the first cases of the current outbreak were all Chinese nationals traveling domestically, the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/03\/china-punishes-frozen-food-shippers-coronavirus-outbreak\/\">insisted<\/a> that the true source of the outbreak was the packaging of imported products coming into ports in Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is currently no evidence that people can catch COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] from food or food packaging,\u201d&nbsp;the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/questions-and-answers\/item\/coronavirus-disease-covid-19-food-safety-for-consumers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> insisted on Thursday that the manic scramble to lock down the important metropolis \u201cdoesn\u2019t imply the epidemic in Xi\u2019an is out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe epidemic in Xi\u2019an has entered its peak period and will not be brought under control immediately,\u201d a different sentence in the same article read.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Xinhua News Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20211224\/1b5ff0c83c97452facdde04a59600096\/c.html\">boasted<\/a> of the onerous work hours the Communist Party is forcing on essential employees in Xi\u2019an to ensure residents do not violate the lockdown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice officer Li Fuli, 40, began work at 8 a.m. Wednesday and was still patrolling local communities at midnight. Li has not seen his 7-year-old son for almost a week,\u201d Xinhua noted in an article on Thursday. Li\u2019s wife is also an essential government employee, leaving unclear who the son has been staying with while the government forces his parents to work.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party claims the extreme measures taken in Xi\u2019an were caused by only dozens of cases. By Wednesday, the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> claimed the virus had spread to 234 people in two weeks. The newspaper asserted that the cases appear to be caused by the delta variant of the Chinese coronavirus, a more severe but less contagious variant of the one currently dominant in America, the omicron variant.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640435944688000&amp;usg=AOvVaw233f-7rM63_bZI5fgesRdn\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640435944688000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VGyAs2BBhdK7KlhKnQIB7\">Twitter<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s state-run\u00a0Global Times propaganda newspaper admitted on Thursday that the regime\u2019s decision to lock down Xi\u2019an, a city area of 13 million people, over the Chinese coronavirus cases was a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1150040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1150040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}