The opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics is just getting under way in Beijing. Overseeing the event is filmmaker Zhang Yimou, back after directing the 2008 Summer Games opener to global acc…
, back after directing the 2008 Summer Games opener to global acclaim. This time around, Zhang has said the ceremony will have a romantic tone that he hopes will “amaze the whole world.”’s CGTN recently, Zhang said, “By expressing a romantic feeling at such a grand opening, we are hoping to depict the romantic perspective, which is in fact a perfect reflection of cultural confidence… If we create a romantic moment… then we are going to amaze our audience and amaze the whole world.
Attendees began filing into the Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing this evening local time, with strict controls including multiple temperature checks and proof of negative Covid tests, according to reports from French media. The arena can hold 91,000 people, but will be far from capacity, with spacing of one seat between each person.
The Games are opening under a cloud of tension between China and the U.S., which along with other countries has implemented a diplomatic boycott over the PRC’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in December.
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