Tag: Beijing
2024 Olympics boss Tony Estanguet, positive for Covid, will not go to Beijing
The president of the Paris 2024 Olympics organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, positive for Covid-19, will not travel to Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Estanguet, whose state of health has…
100% artificial snow: in Beijing, the not so green Winter Olympics
Beijing wants to green its image, and what better way than to display its ambition during the Beijing Winter Olympics which begin on February 4? “Beijing 2022 will be the…
the IOC confirms a plan to meet with Peng Shuai in Beijing
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach will meet Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai during the Beijing Winter Games, the Olympic institution said on Thursday (January 27th). In a statement…
in Beijing, the Olympic Games 100% artificial snow
According to a report published by researchers from the English University of Loughborough, the Olympic Games and winter sports in general would be threatened by global warming. The lack of…
Beijing calls on Washington to ‘stop disrupting’ its Winter Games
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday (January 27th) urged the United States to “ stop disturbing the Beijing Winter Olympics, during a call with his American counterpart Antony Blinken.…
Should we boycott the Beijing Olympics?
NO / “The empty chair policy is not effective” By Cécile Coudriou, President of Amnesty International France Amnesty International’s position has always been that a boycott of sporting events, whether…
The Beijing Olympics between Covid and boycott
normal The Winter Olympics, scheduled in the Chinese capital from February 4 to 20, will have an unusual exposure this year, amid a diplomatic boycott, coronavirus and questions surrounding the…
Covid-19: two weeks before the Beijing Winter Olympics, where is the epidemic in China?
Long mandatory quarantines on arrival in the territory, targeted confinements, massive screenings, mobile applications for tracking movements and drastic limitation of international flights… Thanks to these particularly strict measures, life…
The quarrel with Beijing puts the industrialists of Lithuania under pressure
Since the announcement in July 2021 of the opening of a representation of Taiwan in Lithuania, relations have been difficult between Vilnius and Beijing. It is the industrialists who suffer…
HRW: Beijing Olympics should be boycotted at the diplomatic level
In its annual human rights report released Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) focused on threats to democratic structures around the world. In an interview with AFP ahead of the annual…