The second Olympics in less than a year kicked off Friday morning, with NBC struggling to find a balance between honoring the spectacle and acknowledging the controversial backdrop.
featured the grandest and most ambitious opening ceremony in modern memory, an astonishing achievement for filmmaker Zhang Yimou. They were also an unsettling display of Chinese nationalism and high-tech propaganda.opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
: Without quite equaling that 2008 launch — the reduced attendance and scale were COVID necessities — Zhang Yimou’s second go-round as opening ceremonies orchestrator easily made for the best showing since then, a display of grandeur that put what Tokyo mounted last year to shame. The proceedings were also an unsettling display of Chinese nationalism and high-tech propaganda, this time featuring straight-up genocide denial broadcast around the globe.
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