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Feb 11 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
What it’s like for the lucky spectators who can get a ticket for the #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics. I’ll take you in... bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
If you have a read of this piece I hope you get a sense of how cool and nice the #Beijing2020 Olympic volunteers are, as with the spectators I met. Such a pity these Games & #Tokyo last year had to be held in a time of Rona and that more people couldn’t participate. #China
"We don't know anything about skating," one tells me. "We are just here to watch and cheer the athletes along, to be part of the atmosphere. It's great."... Anyone who falls is being encouraged - "Jia you!" they say in Chinese...
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Here’s my latest story which somehow caused the loonies at the @globaltimesnews to lose their shit. Here’s an exercise: imagine you’re an intern at Global Times dirt unit, you’re presented this piece to find evil foreign devil reporting. Do you best... bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

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Feb 11
What a disgraceful piece of garbage the Communist Party’s dirt rag the Global Times is. Anyone who works there should feel ashamed of themselves. Oh my god! I (wait for it) blocked a follower. The Govt here blocks all of Twitter because it distrusts Chinese people you imbeciles. Image
If people are interested in #China’s media, the best is Sixth Tone, Caixin etc and the absolute worst is the Global Times. Imagine a gutless, toilet paper tabloid with no ethics, then you give it the bully power of #China’s Communist Party... there you have the @globaltimesnews
To state the bleedin obvious: blocking someone on Twitter who attacks you isn’t threatening their freedom of speech. They can say whatever they like on Twitter but I don’t have to engage with it. Yet #China completely blocking Twitter destroys freedom of speech, denies knowledge.
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Feb 11
Following the latest co-ordinated Olympic attack campaign by trolls and gaggle of other D-grade apologists (like the Bike Riding Bozo) I’ll be limiting responses to my tweets for a bit. Sorry about that for normal people.
And here is yet another “wolf warrior wannabe” diplomat fuelling harassment of foreign correspondents in #China. In this case me. Note that the Foreign Ministry here is supposed to be responsible for the wellbeing of international journalists based in China.
Also CaoYi has blocked me on twitter & yet wants to get on board with the cry baby Party attack dogs who think they should be able to harass foreign correspondents without being blocked. Plus his government blocks all of Twitter because it doesn’t trust its own citizens to use it
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Feb 11
Did anyone just see the amount of air which Hirano Kaishu got in the snowboard half pipe. Insane!
These half-pipe blokes are amazing. They’re nutcases. ;-)
Come on Scotty!
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Feb 9
Here we go again! Big morning coming up at #Beijing2022 Winter Olympics. #China Image
Passing the mascots on the way. #Beijing2022 #China Image
I’m sounding like a broken record but such a pity that, because of #Covid, this stadium couldn’t be full for the men’s figure skating today. Imagine how hard it would have been to get tickets if they’d gone on sale. That said, feeling privileged to be able to see these athletes. ImageImageImage
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Jan 24
After a weekend of mass #Covid testing in #Beijing, there is a lot more today. Whole housing communities are being told to be tested, in some cases twice in two days. Officials at one compound told me this was not because of infected residents but as a precaution. #China
Some context: #Beijing’s Games in 2022 compared to the atmosphere in 2008. #China. “Two Olympics and two very different Chinas” bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
You can see from the video above that there is a very high proportion of people wearing masks in #Beijing, even outdoors (in the case of this clip, 100% of people). #China
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Jan 24
Beijing 2022 vs 2008: Two Olympics and two very different Chinas... a piece by me. bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
Interested to hear from others in #China who were also here in 2008 what they make of the differences between the #Beijing of then and now and the Olympic ambiance of 2022 v 2008. (Below is my piece from today) “Two Olympics and two very different Chinas” bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
BTW yes I realise the twitter link has 2018 instead of 2008 for some annoying reason. (I’m now talking to your subconscious: Unsee! Unsee!).
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