Tag: Beijing
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…
Tropical cyclones, hurricanes and typhoons will increasingly strike in mid-latitudes
Tropical cyclones, they only form … in the tropics! This is obvious that could change with anthropogenic global warming. Researchers believe that this type of low pressure system could soon…
Hurricanes and typhoons will strike more at mid-latitudes
Tropical cyclones, they only form … in the tropics! This is obvious that could change with anthropogenic global warming. Researchers believe that this type of low pressure system could soon…