China sends message to rest of the world with Opening Ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games.
BEIJING — The Chinese flag waved strong and proud throughout the entire Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Olympic Games, an impressive sight all its own … and even more so because of the fact that there was no wind inside the Bird’s Nest.
The Ceremony hit all the usual marks — spectacular choreography and visual effects, theatrical representations of the beauty of the natural world, too-long airy platitudes from Olympic officials, singing and dancing children. It concluded with a pair of 2022 Chinese Olympians placing the torch amid a snowflake made up of the names of the participating nations.
This was no doubt a statement from China to the rest of the world, which has condemned China for its treatment of the Uyghurs, a muslim ethnic group in the northwest part of the country. It is believed that more than 1 million Uyghurs are being held in "re-education" camps in the region of Xinjiang.
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