Games in Beijing, which means make a sound in the east, attack in the west

chiny24.com 3 years ago

The Beijing Winter Olympics, which start today, will surely be different from all those that have been played since 1924 since the first games in Chamonix. I'm going to be in circumstantial conditions shaped by coronavirus and politics.

The erstwhile makes the Games – like the summertime ones in Tokyo – lose their tremendous value of the global vacation of people arriving to observe the struggles of athletes from all over the world, from all continents. Beijing won't be in the stands of supporters from abroad. Covid sharpening. These sharpens will besides make many athletes incapable to compete in the competitions for months and years. Here usually due to the difference in knowing the meaning of certain rules.

Politics has hung over the Winter Olympics as a consequence of changes that have been taking place for respective years and which are referred to as "change of the planet order".

When the Chinese organized the 2008 summertime Olympics in Beijing, they were good. due to the fact that the Chinese at the time were a kind and helpful ATM debt to many countries of the planet that stepped on the face of multi-story hedged mortgages granted to people who could never afford them.

After 14 years, China gained strength, and more than that, it began to lead in many areas, especially in the field of manufacturing and technology. This situation affected the most American leaders who took the monopoly over the concept of best. As a consequence of the tension that resulted in the trade war, Washington began to drift distant from Beijing. Washington, who contributed to the fact that Beijing was elected as the venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics, decided to get the remainder of the planet to boycott the event, like the 1980 Moscow Games.

And here it came out, most likely against the will of the American administration, this "change of the planet order." In 1980, not many teams from Western countries arrived in Moscow. Then the division of my-they designated by the churchillian "iron curtain" was clear and alternatively simple. He's not like that anymore. The United States in 2022 is no longer the same The states they were in 1980. And they are surely no longer the same country as they were in the mid-1990s. Boycott didn't come out well. Even worse, he brought a declaration to strengthen the Chinese-Russian relations. Following the inauguration of the Beijing Winter Olympics from Moscow, a six-man delegation of Russian Federation authorities went on. Originally, the delegation was to have 20-25 people, but it was limited to the six, which included:

Vladimir Putin, who does not require presentation, Russian chief of all bosses. He will be the first leader of a abroad state to meet Xi personally in the last 2 years. It underlines the importance of good relations with China for Russia. Word and deed.
Sergei Lavrow – head of the Russian MFA, who has held this function since 2004, has been shaping Russia's real abroad policy, actively building Russia's relations with China, which seems to have escaped the attention of many global experts.
Nikolaj Szulginow – head of the Russian energy department, and as it is known present everything starts with energy and ends with energy.
Dmitri Czernysenko – Deputy Prime Minister, erstwhile president of the Organizing Committee of the 2014 Russian Winter Olympics, during the Sochi Games was honored with the Paralympic Order, a prize awarded in designation of his contribution to the Paralympic Movement. He is the erstwhile CEO of Gazprom-Media Holding, 1 of the largest Russian amusement and media conglomerates. In 2018 and 2019 he was listed as 1 of the 500 most influential business leaders in the media manufacture Variety’s.
Igor Sechin – president of Rosneft, a state-controlled Russian energy company – 1 of the largest in the world, and 1 of Putin's closest allies and advisors since the beginning of their cooperation in the early 1990s.
Yuri Uszakov – a Cremel authoritative who began his career in the Ministry of abroad Affairs of the USSR, is besides a spokesperson for the delegation during his visit to Beijing. Uszakov was an ambassador to the United States from 1998 to 2008, then returned to Moscow as Deputy Chief of Government Staff. He later became Putin's abroad policy advisor.

It seems that by the end of the Beijing Games, Russian troops will not invade Ukraine

Among the “Thirty-six strategies of ancient China” is this: “Do the screaming in the east, attack in the west”. Stefan H. Verstappeen illustrates this strategy with Sun Tzu:

"The opponent must not know where we will attack him. If he doesn't know that, he has to prepare to attack in many places. If in many places he takes defensive positions, we attack with little force. So if enemies prepare to defend the front, they will leave fewer people behind.”

It seems the enemy inactive doesn't know where he's going to be attacked. He assumes it will be a military attack. Meanwhile, it may be of an economic-political nature. And so it seems. A Chinese-Russian matrimony of complacency is simply a challenge that the American administration may neglect to meet. Today, it is hard to find something that Washington could get Moscow to betray Beijing.

And that is why the Winter Olympics starting present will be different from the erstwhile ones. I'm counting on them to bring sports emotions. Or possibly heroes, like a memorable bobsled squad from Jamaica.