HS analysis China is now second, more cruel: “No one can be treated like this” – more and more people know that

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Let’s forget for a moment about these Winter Olympics sports, and wondering what will come to mind.

There has often been talk of something other than sports.

The Beijing Winter Olympics in 2022 have been the corona Games even more than the Tokyo Summer Olympics.

The ruthlessness of the Chinese authoritarian regime towards the individual has become apparent to athletes and journalists from abroad. Positive test results and strict isolation for people considered healthy elsewhere in the world have been a shock to them.

That’s not how people can be treated!

Medical staff at the Beijing Olympic Corona Isolation Hotel on February 17th.

But so China is treated. When the state, or indeed the communist party leading the state, decides something, the individual is uselessly out of whack. No constitutional or supervisory authority is invoked here.

The individual is bent into the machinery. It sometimes results in a good – like a good corona situation – but always at the expense of individuals.

The arbitrariness within the bubble surrounding the venues has been small compared to many of the real sufferers in China, but in the bubble, even a taste of violating individual freedoms has acted as a guide to bigger problems.

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Many in Finland also seem to have suddenly realized how terrible the human rights situation in China is. Most Chinese live in peace, but large numbers of people also disappear, are tortured, threatened and imprisoned on wrong grounds. Outside Xinjiang.

And yes, the majority of Chinese, really all, have to be careful when speaking and writing. Their access to information is severely restricted.

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In Finland social media has exclaimed why the media has been silent about all this. Exclamations say two things.

First, that in today’s world, people live in media bubbles. It is quite that so many have apparently managed not to see the countless stories that journalists have written about the situation in China in recent years. No more browsing through the morning paper and watching half past nine news, everyone follows what is normally of interest online.

Secondly, they say that in the future large numbers of Finns will associate China with human rights violations.

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According to researchers, things happened differently after the previous Beijing Olympics in 2008. The race was later remembered for its spectacular opening and sporting performances. Human rights cases lived in the media just before the Games.

Now is perhaps different. And China is another, even more cruel. In recent years, it has camped Muslims in Xinjiang and silenced Hong Kong’s “misunderstanders”. This was hard to forget even during the Games.

The sponsors of the Olympics were not really able to take advantage of the Games in the West. They feared consumers would get angry about Beijing-related ads.

Let’s see if the granting of various sporting events to countries with bad governance ends.

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Of these the Games also remind me of how confident China has become. It does not seem to be terribly plagued by the world’s threshing of its human rights abuses.

In the Games, China focused more on entertaining its domestic audience. Why wouldn’t it have made the soldier involved in the border crackdown with India run the Olympic flame even though the Indians were angry about it? Yes, they appreciated the gesture.

Beijing the olympics have been very political games.

They show the division of the world into authoritarian countries and mainly Western democracies. The democratic world largely failed to send its political leadership to the Games – in return, Chinese and Russian leaders held a summit alongside the Games.

The authoritarian duo announced that they were getting closer. If their cooperation really deepens, it could be the most impressive gift of the Beijing Games to the world.

With his presence, Russian President Vladimir honored the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics on February 4th.

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