Beijing time:2022-05-15 05:12
[NTDTV, Beijing time, May 15, 2022]The CCP, on the grounds of the epidemic, recently abandoned the five major international competitions originally scheduled to be held in China, arousing the attention of the outside world. Some experts believe that this means that the CCP’s epidemic prevention policy has failed.
The 2023 AFC Asian Cup was originally scheduled to take place in China from June 16 to July 16, 2023. However, the Asian Cup China Organizing Committee suddenly announced on May 14: “Affected by the epidemic, it is difficult for the Chinese Organizing Committee to make commitments and arrangements for next year’s Asian Cup to be held in a fully open mode. The Chinese Organizing Committee of the 2019 Asian Cup has decided after consultation that this year’s Asian Cup football match will be held in another location. The new venue will be confirmed as soon as possible.”
The AFC also issued a notice on its website that day, stating that the AFC recognized that the epidemic caused China to give up the right to host.
A number of games previously hosted by the CCP have also been changed due to the impact of the epidemic: the final stage of the East Asian Football Championship (also known as the East Asia Cup) originally planned to be held in China this year was changed to Japan; it was originally scheduled to be held in Chengdu in June this year. The Summer Universiade and the 19th Asian Games, originally scheduled to be held in Hangzhou in September this year, have been postponed one after another, and the specific time and venue of the competition are yet to be determined; the 3rd Asian Youth Games, originally scheduled to be held in Shantou in December this year, also Cancelled due to the pandemic.
Of the five international sports competitions mentioned above, next year’s Asian Cup football match is the most popular, which was originally scheduled to be held in ten cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi’an, Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen and Suzhou. According to mainland Chinese media reports, these cities have invested in the construction of professional football stadiums in preparation for the Asian Cup.
Many Chinese netizens and fans regretted the cancellation of the event. However, outside public opinion believes that for the CCP authorities, there are many adverse effects behind the cancellation of the event.
Current affairs commentator Dr. Zhang Tianliang believes that this is the right to host the event that the CCP has finally won, and that there are many Chinese cities hosting the event. This is a good opportunity to boost the economy, tourism, and the CCP’s self-promotion. But after the cancellation of the hosting rights, this seems to mean that Xi Jinping’s “dynamic clearing” policy will continue at least until June next year.
Zhang Tianliang analyzed in his program “The Politics of the World at Daybreak” that the CCP has always regarded the holding of large-scale international events as a sign of its so-called “rise”, and therefore regards holding such games as a political task.
Zhang Tianliang said that in the past, the CCP used the Beijing Winter Olympics to dress itself up as a “top student” to fight the epidemic, but now that many countries in the world have opened up, the CCP just doesn’t dare to open up, which further highlights that the CCP is not a “top student” to solve the epidemic. It’s “underachiever”.
(Editor in charge: Wen Hui)
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