Jiang Hong’s point of view： ＂Show boycott＂ becomes the biggest international joke in 2022.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 29th Jiang Hong’s point of view: "Show boycott" becomes the biggest international joke in 2022.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Hong
The world-famous 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will open in five days. More than 30,000 visitors from all over the world, including ice and snow athletes, members of the Olympic family and media reporters, are arriving in Beijing one after another. On the 28th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China also announced the list of international dignitaries who came to China to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics and related activities. Dozens of foreign heads of state, heads of government, members of the royal family and heads of international organizations, including Russian President Putin, UN Secretary-General Guterres and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, will come to Beijing in a few days. Many of them came not far from Wan Li, and some of them visited China for the first time.
On January 13th, UN Secretary-General Guterres emphasized that the Olympic Games can promote world peace. Guterres has confirmed that China will attend the Beijing Winter Olympics in the future. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Yushe
Under the international background that the global epidemic is still spreading, the economy continues to decline and the world is experiencing difficult times, such a luxurious large-scale global event is like a beam of light that illuminates and warms all the villagers in the global village. Everything is ready in Beijing, just waiting for the feast!
Looking back now, the so-called "boycott" and "not sending government officials" that some western anti-China politicians have been clamoring for in recent years, especially in recent months, have become the biggest international joke in 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on January 25th that both Russia and China oppose the politicization of sports, the "show-style" boycott and abide by the Olympic spirit of advocating equality and justice. The word "show boycott" is well used, which can be said to be very accurate and vividly shows the essence that some western politicians tried to manipulate sports topics for show, but they were slapped in the face.
I remember that before the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008, a few western anti-China forces staged a farce of "boycott", but it did not affect the Beijing Olympic Games as an "unparalleled" event and was engraved in the Olympic history. In the process of preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, some western politicians played the noisy "boycott" trick that they were good at. Later, they were unanimously condemned and criticized by global athletes who resolutely defended their sports career interests and the right to participate in the Olympic Games, and then they threw out the so-called "not sending officials to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics" stunt. No matter what kind of absurd "moths" they throw, they are just self-deceiving. They can’t shake the yearning and expectation of the world’s ice and snow athletes for the Beijing Winter Olympics at all, and can’t shake the process that Beijing will once again contribute a wonderful event to the world as the "Double Olympic City".
Fireworks display at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games on August 8, 2008. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Jiajun photo
Foreign athletes, officials, media reporters, etc. who have arrived in Beijing all praised the Beijing Winter Olympics as a perfect competition venue, thoughtful and meticulous organization and reception, precise and strict epidemic prevention and control measures, and there is no lack of humanity. In the closed loop, in the competition venues and the media center, the reporter saw that the reception organizers were warm, thoughtful, fast and efficient, and the work and life of foreign people in China were orderly and relaxed, just waiting for the opening of the Winter Olympics. A foreign blogger named "Living in China" ("Living in China") said in a live broadcast on overseas social media: "I believe that at present, no country can be more fully prepared and capable of hosting the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics."
International Olympic Committee President Bach said that some countries sent delegations to attend the Winter Olympics for the first time, which fully showed that the Beijing Winter Olympics was widely supported by the international community.
On October 25th, 2021, the theme event of the 100th countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held in Beijing. IOC President thomas bach delivered a speech via video link. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Huanzong photo
In the beginning of spring season of the Year of the Tiger in 2022, the whole world gathered in Beijing and focused on China, which confirmed an old China wisdom: "Germany is not alone, there must be neighbors."
Before the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games held half a year ago, the International Olympic Committee kept pace with the times and updated the Olympic motto that had been used for a hundred years to: "Faster, higher and stronger — — More United. " This is also the common aspiration of all the villagers in the global village. Beijing Winter Olympics is the first global comprehensive sports event held as scheduled since the COVID-19 epidemic. As Ukrainian Olympic Committee President bubka said, sports help people overcome the difficulties together, and Beijing Winter Olympics will send a firm signal that human beings can unite to overcome the epidemic.
When the ancient Chinese civilization and the Olympic civilization meet again in this Year of the Tiger, when the Olympic ideal of faster, higher, stronger and more United meets the wisdom of China, who is building a community of human destiny, it will surely collide with colorful sparks of human wisdom and explore a bright future for the development of earth civilization.