For more than two weeks, China’s Beijing2022 news conference has been devoid of talk about its most sensitive situations and politics. But all of that changed three days before the end of the Games.
Following up on a question about Taiwan’s reported attempt to skip the opening ceremony, Yan asked for extra time to address the status of the self-governing island, which China views as its sovereign territory.
“Mark, could I just make some supplementary remarks?” Yan said in English. Then, shifting to Chinese: “Taiwan is an indivisible part of China and this is a well recognized international principle and well recognized in the international community. We are always against the idea of politicizing the Olympic Games.”
“There are views on all sorts of things around the world, but our job is to make sure that the Games take place,” Adams said.A Games volunteer, a young Chinese graduate student, got a question she did not expect when a reporter asked if she knew who Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai was and, further, did she believe Peng was safe.
, and whether China was using forced labor there. Adams suggested the question was not “particularly relevant’ to the briefing, and then went on to praise the power of the Olympics to unite people.“I think these questions are very much based on lies,” she said. “Some authorities have already disputed this false information. There is a lot of solid evidence.
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