Global Politics, by Jorge López Portillo Basave //

The Government of what could already be the most powerful country in the world does not want and in fact has not allowed what happened to Tokyo in 2020 to happen. The Summer Olympics in Japan were postponed for a year and finally took place last summer almost inadvertently in the midst of the reopening and the start of vaccinations against Covid19.

For the communist country, the scenario is different, they will not allow it and I doubt that the International Olympic Committee will risk requesting that the Winter Olympics be postponed due to the new variant called Omicron.

NOT JUST TO BE, BUT TO LOOK

What about the $40 billion that Beijing also spent on its 2008 Summer Olympics? We already know that the Winter Olympics are less commercial than the summer ones but China must show that with Covid19 and with image problems due to human rights abuses or military threats in India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and others, they, they are more than their opponents with western ideas.

But China is not Japan. For China, the Olympics are a special opportunity in which they will exhibit their economic power, their political power, their scientific advances, and of course, their population control. As they say “the end justifies the means”. Will be?

TRAVEL TO BEIJING

The Winter Olympics will take place, if nothing changes, from February 4 to 20. But in the face of Omicron's wave, President Xi does not want to leave anything to chance, he has ordered measures that will surely be the envy of my countrymen in several governments and in fact in several governments of the world.

To begin with, local trips in China to Beijing are restricted, that is, if you are in any region outside the capital, you will not be able to enter the city with few exceptions until the Olympics are about to start on January 20, the date in which the arrivals of people are supposed to start to receive tourists at the end of the month. Let us remember that at the beginning of Covid19, many local governments, including in Mexico, requested travel restrictions from city to city or from state to state, as well as now they will request vaccines that do not exist, in order to enter entertainment centers where not even the workers will be vaccinated in against a variant that is not stopped by existing vaccines.

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Two days ago a good friend and partner was eating in a restaurant in the State of Hainan when the police or the army arrived out of nowhere, I did not understand well, and began a review of health documents, the vaccinated were allowed to continue after the scare, but Those who were not vaccinated were taken to a mobile clinic parked at the exit of the place and they were vaccinated right there. They will easily and quickly reach 100% vaccination, but that will not stop the contagion and they know it, so between now and the end of January there are almost no permits to travel within China, especially to Beijing.

If you have a planned flight to said country, you will have to wait, the aeronautical authority of said country on Friday has issued new rules and initiated the cancellation of flights from several countries, including anyone from the US, to prevent them from reaching you. infected before the games start. It does not matter whether or not you are vaccinated or if you have a certificate that you do not have covid19. The measures will be in force at least from January 19 to 31 for all commercial flights, naturally private flights may have exceptions and these insurances will be ready to be granted to the flights of athletes or high officials from other countries who wish to attend the opening ceremony. You see that "science" has its favorites.

Two weeks ago, mid-flight from Seattle to Shanghai, a Delta flight was turned back because security measures were modified midway, forcing the plane to turn around and return to the US.

As I have said since this pandemic began, which should already be declared over because COVID-19 is here to stay, there will be many changes from mental to material in the world, especially in the countries that we enjoy freedoms because the pandemic opened Pandora's box. through which things are allowed out of fear and in fact measures are celebrated that were only applied in totalitarian countries. If you have not seen the James Bond and Matrix movies, I recommend you watch them and pay special attention to the fact that in both of them -one of them filmed before the pandemic- the villains assure us that the world, people do not want to be free , who are looking for someone to solve them and tell them what to do and in exchange for that guide they are willing to give up their freedoms.

WOMEN SET THE EXAMPLE

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, the Women's World Tennis Association had the pants to face China and decided not to participate in sporting events in that country until the accusations of sexual abuse against a high-ranking government official in China were cleared up. against one of its most renowned tennis players. Since then, some other organizations and countries have joined a growing boycott against human rights abuses in China.

A few days ago, the White House joined forces, followed by Australia, with whom China already has many problems, Japan with whom it has a dispute over territorial waters and islands, Canada, and now Denmark. We'll see how far they go; naturally the athletes from those countries will be able to go but there will be no official delegation at the opening ceremony.

Without a doubt, China is a beautiful country, with tasty food, interesting people and history, attractive for business, but with political customs that are very different from those we know. Although as everywhere if you are good with the powerful you have much better opportunities to stand out.