From COVID regulations to ongoing tensions between China and other world powers, this Winter Olympics will be like no other, writes Tracey Holmes.
China's new ambassador to Australia, Xiao Qian
North-eastern Afghanistan borders China's far-western region of Xinjiang, whose Muslim-majority population include Uyghurs. Tribunal chair Geoffrey Nice delivers the verdict of the independent tribunal assessing evidence on China’s alleged rights abuses against the Uyghur people. "They do not want to be regarded as a pariah. And most importantly, they don't want their other interests – commercial interests, sporting interests – to be affected by things that could be corrected," he said.
People wearing face masks line up to get a swab at a hospital in Beijing. Chinese authorities have called on the public to stay where they are during the Lunar New Year instead of travelling to their hometowns. Volunteers and residents of Beijing working at the Olympics are expected to be required to go into a three-week quarantine at the end of the Games before they can return home to their families who, in some instances, live down the road.
Images of the venues are spectacular. The IOC has applauded the efforts local organisers have gone to in the pursuit of staging a green Games, despite most of the facilities being prepared almost entirely with man-made snow.
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