{"id":1184413,"date":"2022-01-03T17:35:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1184413"},"modified":"2022-01-03T17:35:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T22:35:46","slug":"china-isnt-done-building-genocide-olympics-venues-with-a-month-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-isnt-done-building-genocide-olympics-venues-with-a-month-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"China Isn&#039;t Done Building Genocide Olympics Venues with a Month to Go"},"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\">24<\/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-isnt-done-building-genocide-olympics-venues-with-a-month-to-go%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=1184413&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1237361622-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Construction is still under way on venues for the Winter Olympics in the city of Zhangjiakou, where many of the skiing and snowboarding events for the Beijing Games will take place, the <i>South China Morning Post<\/i> (<em>SCMP<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3161873\/impoverished-chinese-city-bet-its-fortunes-2022-winter-olympics-then\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;Monday.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The coronavirus wave sweeping across China reportedly stalled work with only a few weeks to go before the Games begin. Pandemic travel restrictions will leave resorts, hotels, and restaurants optimistically constructed to take advantage of the event standing empty, visiting financial ruin upon the already destitute Chongli district of Zhangjiakou.<\/span><\/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<p><span>The mountainous district of Chongli was classified \u201cextremely impoverished\u201d as recently as May 2019, the <i>SCMP<\/i> noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Chongli was then built up for the Olympics and now \u201cboasts a string of luxury hotels including international chains, seven ski resorts, two high-speed railway stations,\u201d and four venues constructed to handle Olympic events. About 20 percent of the population now works in jobs related to winter sports, and almost 3 million visitors hit the ski slopes in the last season before the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Winter Games were supposed to vault Chongli 30 years ahead in economic development, but now the Chinese government has banned foreign spectators, might ban <\/span><span>domestic <\/span><span>spectators, and will shut down the commercial ski slopes until March for security reasons. The pandemic is reportedly interfering with an American snowboard manufacturer\u2019s plan to relocate its factory to a Zhangjiakou industrial park.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Construction work has also been delayed by the pandemic, although local managers assured the <\/span><i><span>SCMP <\/span><\/i><span>that Olympic venues are \u201cabout 90 percent complete\u201d and should be ready on schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><i><span>SCMP <\/span><\/i><span>suggested the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/explainer-what-does-an-olympic-diplomatic-boycott-achieve\/\">diplomatic boycott<\/a>\u201d of the Beijing Olympics by America, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom \u2013 which is not a boycott, as diplomats do not play in the Games, and the Biden administration has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/27\/what-diplomatic-boycott-china-says-u-s-officials-applied-for-visas-to-genocide-olympics\/\">confirmed<\/a> it will send diplomatic officials, anyway \u2013 could also damage Chongli\u2019s ambitions by canceling VIP accommodations for visiting officials and their considerable retinues.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Concerns about the highly transmissible omicron coronavirus variant may yet cause more problems for the Winter Games. The North American National Hockey League <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/sports\/nhl-says-players-will-not-be-able-participate-beijing-winter-games-2021-12-22\/\"><span>canceled<\/span><\/a><span> plans to send players to the Olympic ice hockey tournament, and on Friday the Canadian Olympic Committee <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-team-canada-ceo-worried-if-beijing-winter-olympics-can-go-ahead-as\/\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> it was \u201cworried\u201d the Olympics might have to be postponed entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction is still under way on venues for the Winter Olympics in the city of Zhangjiakou, where many of the skiing and snowboarding events for the Beijing Games will take &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"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-1184413","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\/1184413","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184413\/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=1184413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}