China spends $300,000 on US influencers ahead of Beijing Olympics
China has turned to social media influencers to help clean up the country’s image as the Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing this week.
The build-up to the Games, which will unfold within a huge Covid-secure “closed loop”, has been overshadowed by controversies ranging from human rights concerns to Peng Shuai and warnings about snooping on competitors by the Chinese government.
Adopting the catchphrase “Together for a shared future”, China’s ruling Communist Party and the International Olympic Committee hope the rancour will be forgotten once the Games get into full swing.
Source: News.com.au #Feb03
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China has turned to social media influencers to help clean up the country’s image as the Winter Olympics get underway in Beijing this week.
The build-up to the Games, which will unfold within a huge Covid-secure “closed loop”, has been overshadowed by controversies ranging from human rights concerns to Peng Shuai and warnings about snooping on competitors by the Chinese government.
Adopting the catchphrase “Together for a shared future”, China’s ruling Communist Party and the International Olympic Committee hope the rancour will be forgotten once the Games get into full swing.
Source: News.com.au #Feb03
https://t.co/Si9sUH6Tvw
#China #Beijing #Olympics
Uyghur torchbearer for 2008 Beijing Olympics serving 14-year sentence in Xinjiang
A Uyghur who served as a torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and was a loyal Chinese government official is serving a 14-year jail sentence for watching counter-revolutionary videos, caught in a crackdown on the ethnic minority group, officials in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi said.
Adil Abdurehim, a member of the Chinese Communist Party and a former employee of the Culture and Sports Bureau of Saybagh district in Urumqi (in Chinese, Wulumuqi) has been in prison for five years, said a local police officer.
Source: RFA #Feb11
https://t.co/w66jkKQ4ro
#Uyghur #Beijing #Olympics #Xinjiang
A Uyghur who served as a torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and was a loyal Chinese government official is serving a 14-year jail sentence for watching counter-revolutionary videos, caught in a crackdown on the ethnic minority group, officials in Xinjiang’s capital Urumqi said.
Adil Abdurehim, a member of the Chinese Communist Party and a former employee of the Culture and Sports Bureau of Saybagh district in Urumqi (in Chinese, Wulumuqi) has been in prison for five years, said a local police officer.
Source: RFA #Feb11
https://t.co/w66jkKQ4ro
#Uyghur #Beijing #Olympics #Xinjiang