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Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacy

  • Written by Yan Bennett, Assistant Director for the Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University
Why the Winter Olympics are so vital to the Chinese Communist Party's legitimacyZhang Ling/Xinhua/AP

Aside from fake snow and COVID-19, the Beijing Winter Games are controversial for many reasons.

They are a potent political symbol of the Chinese state’s ambitions and authority. Held just a year after the triumphalist 100-year anniversary of the Communist Party’s founding, General Secretary Xi Jinping is using the...

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