The Beijing Winter Olympics was originally a global sports event, but in the context of unprecedented changes in a century, it has been given more political and diplomatic significance.

 In recent years, the United States has stepped up its containment of China. First, there is a trade war, then a technology war, and there may be a financial war in the future. After the United States played the South China Sea card, then the Hong Kong card, and then the Xinjiang card, and the Taiwan card even more. 

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On February 4, 2022, Putin was invited to visit China and attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

China and Russia issued a joint statement and signed a large number of cooperation agreements in various fields.

The background of the joint statement is very complicated. The most important factor is that the hegemonic style of the United States is too arrogant and completely unscrupulous, and it does not pay attention to major countries like China and Russia at all.

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February 8 is a special moment for "sports fans" in both China and the United States.
Eileen Gu made history on this day, winning the women's freestyle ski jumping championship at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Her mother was born in Shanghai and grew up in Beijing. About 30 years ago, she immigrated to the United States, married an American, and gave birth to Gu. Later, the marriage broke down, and she brought Gu up alone.
Gu not only showed her talent in skiing, she is also a piano master. Her SAT is almost perfect. After the Winter Olympics, she will enter Stanford University, a famous American Ivy League university.

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After watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, I felt that it showed the self-confidence of a big country.

The opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics gave people the feeling of shock. Everything seemed so grand and so intense. I think that at that time, it was precisely because of a lack of inner self-confidence that China was eager to prove and show something to the world. It wanted to let the world feel the splendor of Chinese civilization and touch the profoundness of Chinese culture through an opening ceremony. However, after more than ten years, you will be surprised to find that China has become more confident, and China does not need to prove anything to anyone. Whether you believe it or not, Chinese culture is still brilliant. Whether you believe it or not, the Chinese nation is still great.

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America is increasingly hostile towards China and one of ultimate weapons in America’s arsenal is to kick China out of SWIFT, the America controlled international intermediary and executor of financial transactions between banks worldwide. In recent years, from Trump to American Congressman, there are occasional talk of kicking China out of SWIFT, in order to decouple US from China and stop China from trading internationally.

If this weapon is so powerful, why is China still not being kicked out? Before I answer this question, allow me to share some statistics and background information. 

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Since China's Belt and Road may be damaged in the west, it must win it back in the east. If the Ukrainian card in the west disappears, China will confiscate the Taiwan card in the east. Otherwise, the United States will concentrate on the Eastern Front.

From this point of view, the Ukraine crisis will be a historical opportunity for China to solve the Taiwan issue. This opportunity is fleeting and will never come again. To be specific, the most recent sensitive time point is around the Winter Olympics.

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In 2021, despite various pressures, China’s annual GDP growth rate is 8.1%, the highest growth in recent years with an average growth of 5.1% in two years.

No country in the world today can match this data. In the face of the epidemic, the United States only achieved an average growth of 1.5% in two years, and China's growth in these two years was more than three times that of the United States. But this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that China has become the first choice for foreign investment in the world in the past two years, and China has surpassed the United States in the use of foreign investment. China's GDP rose from 65% of the US GDP to 80% in just two years' time.

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When the pandemic really appeared, those "top" countries with the most complete medical resources and the most advanced medical equipment, the more beautiful rankings they had on paper, the more they were defeated, especially by Delta and the highly contagious mutant strains such Omicron. These Western powers with the highest scores shouted "coexist with the virus" one by one.
This makes China, which has a mid-range score but has zero tolerance toward COVID seems to stand out from the crowd.

Of course, standing out in this world often means you get targeted. .
Western media have launched all kinds of maddening attacks on China's "zero policy on COVID, which are cynical and sarcastic from various angles.

For example, recently, a new wave of offensive has begun.

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