January 31, 2022

With the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games around the corner, some Western media outlets seem to have ramped up their attempts to slander China's efforts made in honor of the Games.

In relation to China's COVID-19 prevention and control measures, such as "closed loop" management system of the Games, for instance, a report on Sunday by the Guardian cited Victor Cha, senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC, as claiming these rules seem to be a metaphor for how China's Communist Party leadership wants the Games to play out overall - in a closed system fully under their control. Cha said, "Covid has really given them the excuse to completely lock down everything. They want to have complete control over the picture of the Olympics and that helps."

This is another manifestation of the West's interpretation of China through "conspiracy theories."

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