{"id":1263092,"date":"2022-02-01T20:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1263092"},"modified":"2022-02-01T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T01:23:54","slug":"china-world-needs-chinese-olympics-to-relieve-anxieties-about-chinese-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-world-needs-chinese-olympics-to-relieve-anxieties-about-chinese-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"China: World Needs Chinese Olympics to &#039;Relieve Anxieties&#039; About Chinese Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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-world-needs-chinese-olympics-to-relieve-anxieties-about-chinese-pandemic%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=1263092&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\">The 2022 Winter Olympics \u2014 set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 \u2014 will \u201crelieve anxieties felt about the pandemic,\u201d China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em>&nbsp;claimed in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202201\/1250254.shtml\">op-ed<\/a> published Sunday, referring to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, which originated in central China\u2019s Wuhan city sometime in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgainst the backdrop of raging pandemic and slowing global economic recovery, the world needs a successful Winter Olympics, which can not only bring joy from watching the Games, relieving anxieties felt about the pandemic,\u201d the newspaper wrote.<\/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>The publication failed to mention that the pandemic it referred to began as an epidemic in China, specifically within Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province. Much about the true origins of the Chinese coronavirus remains unknown, in large part due to Beijing\u2019s efforts to hinder the World Health Organization (W.H.O.)\u2019s official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/30-03-2021-who-calls-for-further-studies-data-on-origin-of-sars-cov-2-virus-reiterates-that-all-hypotheses-remain-open\">investigation<\/a> into the disease\u2019s emergence in Wuhan from January 14 to February 10, 2021. Currently available information indicates \u201cCOVID-19,\u201d or the disease caused by a type of coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2, first appeared in Wuhan sometime in the autumn or winter of 2019. \u201cCOVID-19\u201d is also known as the Chinese coronavirus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19296362\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/China.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19296362\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/China.jpg\" alt=\"WUHAN, CHINA - APRIL 07: CHINA OUT The railway police are on duty in the waiting room on April 7, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. The Chinese government lifted travel restrictions from April 8, after almost 11 weeks of lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The railway police are on duty in the waiting room on April 7, 2020, in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. (Stringer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fueling the global spread of the disease, China\u2019s ruling Communist Party allowed 5 million people to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/5-million-left-wuhan-before-coronavirus-quarantine-2020-1\">leave<\/a> Wuhan in January 2020 before local officials <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pandemics-wuhan-china-coronavirus-pandemic-e6147ec0ff88affb99c811149424239d\">locked down<\/a> the city on the 23rd of that month to curb the transmission of the local epidemic beyond the community.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_12471102\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/coronavirus-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12471102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/coronavirus-1.png\" alt=\"A woman with a face mask walks in a shop decorated for the Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok on January 24, 2020, after four people were detected with the Coronavirus in Thailand. (Photo by Mladen ANTONOV \/ AFP) (Photo by MLADEN ANTONOV\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A woman with a face mask walks in a shop decorated for the Chinese Lunar New Year in Bangkok on January 24, 2020. (MLADEN ANTONOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cEscaping the outbreak may have been the cause for some people fleeing the city,\u201d Business Insider speculated about Wuhan\u2019s mass exodus at the time. \u201cBut it also coincided with the Lunar New Year, China\u2019s most important holiday in which city workers return to their hometowns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Communist Party officials further allowed tens of thousands of people to gather for a Lunar New Year banquet in Wuhan on January 18, 2020, according to reports by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/regional\/2020\/02\/06\/wuhan-neighbourhood-sees-infections-after-40000-families-gather-for-potluck\"><em>Straits Times<\/em><\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/virus-outbreak-health-ap-top-news-international-news-china-clamps-down-68a9e1b91de4ffc166acd6012d82c2f9\">Associated Press<\/a>. Sharing food indoors is now known as one of the fastest ways the virus spreads in groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s Public Security Bureau in Wuhan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)30382-2\/fulltext\">reprimanded<\/a> a local ophthalmologist named Li Wenliang in January 2020 for attempting to warn his colleagues about the then-emerging novel coronavirus. Dr. Li later contracted the Chinese coronavirus and died from symptoms of the disease on February 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Dec 30, 2019, Li Wenliang sent a message to a group of fellow doctors warning them about a possible outbreak of an illness that resembled severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, where he worked,\u201d according to the <em>Lancet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMeant to be a private message, he encouraged them to protect themselves from infection. Days later, he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau in Wuhan and made to sign a statement in which he was accused of making false statements that disturbed the public order,\u201d the medical journal recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Wuhan\u2019s coronavirus epidemic spread beyond the city and <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32191675\/\">caused<\/a> a pandemic by March 11, 2020, that remains ongoing today. China\u2019s coronavirus caseload experienced a resurgence in recent weeks, including in the national capital, Beijing. The phenomenon has caused concern among observers of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics, which Beijing is set to host from February 4 to February 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympic organizing committee and Beijing attempted to create a separate \u201cbubble\u201d or \u201cclosed-loop\u201d system for the Games meant to keep out Beijing\u2019s and China\u2019s coronavirus infections. This system has already proved a failure, with Beijing health officials announcing this week that they have <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6143931\/2022-winter-olympics-covid-tests-positive-rate\/\">detected<\/a> \u201c11 positive tests for COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] among 379 athletes and officials arriving Monday [January 31].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 200 positive tests for COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus] have now been recorded at the Olympics since Jan. 23.,\u201d <em>Time<\/em> magazine reported on February 1. \u201cOf those 200, 67 were athletes and officials. \u2018Stakeholders\u2019 accounted for the other 133.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Time<\/em> defined Olympic \u201cstakeholders\u201d as \u201ca group which includes workers and media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rocky start to the 2022 Winter Olympics includes a Western-led \u201cboycott\u201d of the Games\u2019 setting in Beijing. The governments of the U.S., Britain, Australia, and Canada have all expressed desires or intentions to diplomatically boycott the games due to China\u2019s myriad human rights violations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/reports\/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices\/china\/hong-kong\/#:~:text=Significant%20human%20rights%20issues%20included,located%20outside%20of%20Hong%20Kong%3B\">Hong Kong<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/determination-of-the-secretary-of-state-on-atrocities-in-xinjiang\/index.html\">Xinjiang<\/a>, though Beijing has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2021\/12\/08\/china-australia-joining-bidens-olympics-non-boycott-no-one-cares\/\">claimed<\/a> that no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/china-ambassador-says-us-wasnt-even-invited-olympics-1656682\">U.S.<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmprc.gov.cn\/mfa_eng\/xwfw_665399\/s2510_665401\/2511_665403\/202112\/t20211208_10464208.html\">Australian<\/a> government officials were actually invited to the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2022 Winter Olympics \u2014 set to take place in Beijing from February 4 to February 20 \u2014 will \u201crelieve anxieties felt about the pandemic,\u201d China\u2019s state-run Global Times\u00a0claimed in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1263092","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\/1263092","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263092\/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=1263092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}