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Why the Beijing Olympics are so vital to the CCP’s legitimacy
Posted By Yan C. Bennett and John Garrick on February 2, 2022 @ 12:30
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[1] controversial: https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-59644043
[2] triumphalist 100-year anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s founding: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3139408/communist-party-centenary-key-points-xi-jinpings-tiananmen?module=inline&pgtype=article
[3] Some observers: https://theconversation.com/how-china-is-remaking-the-world-in-its-vision-155377
[4] liberal world order: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/FP_20190227_us_grand_strategy_chhabra.pdf
[5] more benign: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1709880
[6] shocking human rights violations: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56487162
[7] particularly in Hong Kong: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hong-kong-freedoms-democracy-protests-china-crackdown
[8] safety of tennis star Peng Shuai: https://theconversation.com/what-the-peng-shuai-saga-tells-us-about-beijings-grip-on-power-and-desire-to-crush-a-metoo-moment-172375
[9] benefits the Chinese people: https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/ce/cein/eng/zgbd/t513960.htm
[10] ‘arrogant and mean: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202201/1250095.shtml
[11] weren’t invited: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/28/china-winter-olympics-2022-diplomatic-boycott/
[12] smart, environmentally friendly: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238928.shtml
[13] wolf-warrior diplomacy: https://theconversation.com/behind-chinas-newly-aggressive-diplomacy-wolf-warriors-ready-to-fight-back-139028
[14] Xi has pleaded with party members: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/world/asia/china-diplomacy.html
[15] only the party can achieve the Chinese dream: http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/c23934/202005/1ea4ce6a31714887a17412cb8f9f30cc.shtml
[16] the prospect : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01529-3
[17] the US Army introduced the virus to Wuhan: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-china-conspiracy-theory.html
[18] Xi’s speech: http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/c23934/202107/6ff93d39da7548fbae37cbed01184c34.shtml
[19] Chinese people to march together with the party: http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/c23934/202006/32191c5bbdb04cbab6df01e5077d1c60.shtml
[20] blockading people in their own homes: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/30/china-covid-lockdown-xian/
[21] discriminatory treatment of Africans living in China: https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/05/05/china-covid-19-discrimination-against-africans