Скачать или смотреть 2022 Winter Olympics: Xi Jinping Visits Athletes and Venues as Challenges Mount

China's President Xi Jinping visited Beijing Winter Olympics venues a month before the games are scheduled to start on February 4 amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak and diplomatic tensions with Western nations over human rights.

He toured the National Speed Skating Oval, athletes’ village, and operations and media centers Tuesday, according to state-run China Daily. Xi told event organizers that the Olympics would be considered a success if they were “green, safe and simple,” according to a video posted online by CCTV. He said in another clip he hoped the nation’s athletes achieved “good results.”

China has pledged to host a “simple, safe and splendid” games from Feb. 4-20, in contrast to the spectacle of the Beijing Summer Olympics in 2008. The attempt to lower expectations is largely due to China’s inability to eliminate Covid-19 from its borders despite strict quarantine rules for inbound travelers, and a policy of mass tracing, testing and lockdowns to stem flareups.

China is the only country left that’s practicing a zero-tolerance strategy, and while the Xi’an outbreak is of the delta variant, the more-transmissible omicron strain now roiling the world may in time challenge that approach even further. Mainland China has not yet reported any community spread of omicron, although it has appeared in Hong Kong, prompting a wave of fresh curbs.

The Winter games are also the target of a diplomatic boycott led by the U.S. The Biden administration announced the move in December, citing “crimes against humanity in Xinjiang, and other human rights abuses.” Australia, Canada and the U.K. announced similar measures, and Japan said it won’t send any government representatives, though it avoided the words “diplomatic boycott.”

Beijing has vociferously denied the genocide accusation leveled at its handling of the far western region of Xinjiang, which has a large Muslim Uyghur population. China insists it is providing job training and educational opportunities while quelling terrorism.

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