Beijing Olympics mostly contained COVID, but couldn’t overcome other dark clouds
By David Wharton | Los Angeles Times
As children carried traditional lanterns across the stadium floor, dancing beneath a giant snowflake, Sunday’s closing ceremony rejoiced in the fact that thousands of athletes had convened from around the world with no significant coronavirus outbreak. Amid dire predictions, a strict “closed-loop” system had pushed daily cases to zero by the end.
“I was very, very disturbed,” said Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee. “It was chilling to see this.” Hot-button political issues — the persecution of Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, crackdowns on Hong Kong protests, aggressive policies directed at neighboring countries such as Taiwan — refused to subside.
“I want to say there is only one China in the world,” she said. “Taiwan is an indivisible part of China.”
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