On February 4, 2022, Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. (Image credit: ANTHONY WALLACE/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
[See China February 20, 2022 News](See a comprehensive report by Chinese reporter Miao Wei) BeijingWinter OlympicsThe closing ceremony was held at the National Stadium “Bird’s Nest” at 8 p.m. on the 20th. Xi Jinping, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China, who had been invisible for nearly two weeks, attended the closing ceremony.Since last week, seven CCP leaders, including Xi Jinping, haveStanding CommitteeCollective stealth has attracted the attention of the media at home and abroad.
The official Xinhua News Agency reported on February 20 that the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the National Stadium on the evening of the 20th. General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinpingand IOC President Bach attended the closing ceremony.
Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics held on the evening of February 4, and gathered guests in Beijing before and after the opening ceremony, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and at least 10 other heads of state and international organizations. But since February 7, none of the Seventh Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, including Xi Jinping, has made any public appearances.
After more than a week of collective invisibility at the highest levels of the CCP, mainland state media focused almost exclusively on coverage of the Winter Olympics. Although the incident of the eight-child mother being locked in the house by iron chains in Fengxian County, Xuzhou, Jiangsu continued to ferment during this period, there were also hot social news such as the Shenyang bus explosion, as well as events such as the outbreak of the epidemic in Hong Kong, but the official media rarely reported or did not report.
Wu Renhua, a participant of the 1989 pro-democracy movement living in Taiwan, told Radio Free Asia that the diplomatic and domestic dilemmas facing Xi Jinping will become more prominent after the Winter Olympics. mother’s problem. After the Winter Olympics, the focus will return to the dilemma of China’s foreign affairs and internal affairs. Wu Renhua said: “The 2008 Beijing Olympics was a beginning and a sign of China’s rise to power, but this year’s Winter Olympics is the beginning of China’s transition from prosperity to decline.”
In response to the collective invisibility of the CCP’s top executives, the Wall Street Journal quoted people familiar with the matter as revealing on February 16 that the CCP’s top executives held a closed-door meeting in Zhongnanhai, and had heated discussions on topics such as how to deal with the Russian-Ukrainian crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China on February 4 and held a meeting with Xi Jinping before the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics. The two sides issued a joint statement saying that Sino-Russian relations go beyond the model of military and political alliance during the Cold War. Outside analysts believe that Beijing supports Russia’s claims in exchange for Putin’s support for the Taiwan issue.
Huari reported that although Xi Jinping’s public stance was pro-Russia, this unusual closed-door discussion at the top of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi Jinping said that “there is no restricted area for cooperation” between China and Russia, which aroused concern within the CCP, because it means a fundamental change in the CCP’s foreign policy.
China is also weighing whether the U.S. will tighten trade restrictions on Beijing if it helps Russia evade U.S. sanctions once Russia invades Ukraine, according to people familiar with the matter.
According to an article published by Hong Kong’s “Ming Pao” on February 15, on the one hand, it is to conduct post-mortem quarantine for the intensive diplomatic activities during the opening of the Winter Olympics. On the other hand, Xi Jinping and other seven members of the Standing Committee also consulted on the drafting of the 20th National Congress report and personnel arrangements, and began to arrange work.
According to the report, the personnel arrangement for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China should have also begun to be brewed, and the relevant roster will be compiled after the “two sessions” in March this year.
Source: Watch China
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