{"id":989300,"date":"2021-11-09T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=989300"},"modified":"2021-11-09T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T16:28:37","slug":"coldest-winter-ever-joins-genocide-pandemic-on-list-of-china-olympics-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/coldest-winter-ever-joins-genocide-pandemic-on-list-of-china-olympics-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Coldest Winter Ever&#039; Joins Genocide, Pandemic on List of China Olympics Woes"},"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\">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%2Fcoldest-winter-ever-joins-genocide-pandemic-on-list-of-china-olympics-woes%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=989300&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&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> government propaganda outlet admitted on Monday that organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are growing concerned that this year will bring \u201cone of the coldest winters ever,\u201d posing a threat to the health of the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtreme weather,\u201d as the newspaper describes it, could result in hazardous conditions for the practice of winter sports and the potential of such a situation raises questions regarding the International Olympic Committee (IOC)\u2019s process in choosing Beijing as a host city for an event occurring in February. The IOC was similarly under fire in 2016 after athletes complained that water venues for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were dangerously polluted and the socialist government at the time had done little to improve their status.<\/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>Human rights activists launched a global boycott movement against the Beijing Olympics already in response to China\u2019s ongoing genocide campaign against the Uyghur people of East Turkestan, as well as a long list of other human rights atrocities the host country is committing. The IOC has ignored calls to relocate the event.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>, citing the Olympics head of \u201cmeteorological security,\u201d asserted that the Communist Party was well-prepared for harsh winter conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the city of Beijing is expected to experience one of the coldest winters ever this year, which could be subject to other weather extremes,\u201d the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202111\/1238443.shtml\">asserted<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201cBeijing Winter Olympics meteorological security researchers said the organizing committee has prepared for various weather conditions to ensure that the outdoor events will not be affected by sudden weather extremes.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The propaganda newspaper noted that Beijing\u2019s was already facing \u201ca severe cold wave\u201d conditions in November, \u201c23 days earlier than usual,\u201d and blamed the conditions on the weather phenomenon known as La Ni\u00f1a.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany in this field believe that due to La Nina and changes in the atmospheric circulation, the northern parts of China are likely to experience an extremely cold winter, including the host cities of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Beijing and Zhangjiakou, North China\u2019s Hebei Province,\u201d the newspaper noted.<br \/>Among the concerns for athletes is the potential of improperly landscaped sports venues or extreme weather delaying the transport of injured athletes out of a venue. Hypothermia may also be a concern.<\/p>\n<p>Olympics meteorology expert Wang Gengchen insisted in the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em> piece that extreme snow or cold would not present a problem for athletes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18668546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1351850696.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18668546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1351850696-1024x692-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"669\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>People walk by bicycles covered in snow following a snowfall on November 7, 2021 in Beijing, China. Beijing, which averages less than seven days of snow annually, is set to host the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics next February. (Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe weather department feels tense about the potential extreme weather this winter, but we are confident because it has already previewed almost every situation,\u201d Wang told the&nbsp;<em>Times<\/em>. \u201cWith the support of government departments, including the Ministry of Science and Technology, a large number of meteorological scenario studies were done, and unprecedentedly high requirements for detailed weather forecasting were put forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Wang appeared to place heavy emphasis on the fact that China would flood venues with artificial snow, which is easier to keep safe for winter sports than natural snow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsiders said that the entire process will strictly comply with low-carbon, clean and green standards, and that concerns about the energy consumption of snowmaking are unfounded,\u201d according to the&nbsp;<em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The IOC has not addressed in any significant way the potential unsuitability of Beijing as a Winter Olympics venue. The Communist Party faced similar, though opposite, weather concerns in 2008 when it hosted the Summer Olympics and addressed them by debuting a \u201cweather machine\u201d that would, in theory, dispel any rain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf rain threatens the opening or closing ceremony, Beijing officials say they will set up several banks of rocket launchers outside the city to seed threatening clouds and cause them to release their rain before it reaches the capital,\u201d NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/id\/wbna23397205\">reported<\/a> at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Weather ultimately did not interfere in the 2008 Olympics, which were instead marred by widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-olympics-beijing-housing\/beijing-to-evict-1-5-million-for-olympics-group-idUSPEK12263220070605\">human rights abuses<\/a>. Environmental conditions also appeared to do little to cause concern in the IOC for the athletes participating in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2016\/07\/05\/olympics-sailors-rio-de-janeiro-water-dirty\/\">navigated<\/a> water so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2016\/08\/01\/expert-dont-put-your-head-under-water-in-rio\/\">dirty<\/a> that it ruined their boats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/11\/russian-olympic-champion-mugged-children-rio\/\">endured<\/a> a long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2016\/08\/19\/rio-shakedown-u-s-swimmers-allowed-leave-11000-payment\/\">list<\/a> of violent crimes at the hands of local bandits.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18668578\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236331935.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18668578\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236331935-1024x621-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists rally in front of the Chinese Consulate in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 2021, calling for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics due to concerns over China\u2019s human rights record. (FREDERIC J. BROWN\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, where health experts warned an outbreak of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2016\/06\/05\/betsy-mccaughey-olympics-in-brazil-will-spread-zika-around-the-world\/\">Zika virus<\/a>&nbsp;could become a pandemic if athletes brought the disease home, Beijing is facing a formidable resurgence of Chinese coronavirus, which is currently fueling an actual ongoing pandemic. The Communist Party is currently attempting to subdue and outbreak that has affected 20 of its 34 provinces and shut down multiple neighborhoods of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/02\/coronavirus-panic-spreads-in-beijing-three-months-before-olympics\/\">Beijing<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-china-59033165\">forcing<\/a> the postponement of the Beijing Marathon. China\u2019s hestitance to host a marathon despite its outdoor nature \u2013 experts believe coronavirus spreads less efficiently in outdoor settings \u2013 raises questions about the safety of indoor sporting events or event similarly outdoor events schedule to occur at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers of boycott efforts against the Beijing Olympics have objected not to safety concerns of athletes, but to honoring Beijing with hosting duties while as many as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">3 million<\/a> Uyghurs and other Muslims languish in Party-run concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>In February, a year out from the event, a coalition of 150 human rights groups signed a joint letter urging the IOC to cancel or relocate the Beijing Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything less\u201d than a global boycott, the letter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/02\/16\/exclusive-beijing-olympics-boycott-organizer-if-america-shows-weakness-freedom-will-be-lost\/\">read<\/a>, \u201cwill be seen as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s authoritarian rule and blatant disregard for civil and human rights.\u201d<\/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=1636540359870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGXHXD089O9qAMAQ_opLdSrvlTaCQ\">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=1636540359870000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHl1eqGqoE1TYcjc23h45tjYDjnvg\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s\u00a0Global Times government propaganda outlet admitted on Monday that organizers of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics are growing concerned that this year will bring \u201cone of the coldest winters ever,\u201d &#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-989300","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\/989300","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=989300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989300\/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=989300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}