China reported on Nov. 18 a third COVID-19 case among foreign athletes in warmup events for the upcoming Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The athlete tested positive on Nov. 14 and has been sent to a quarantine hotel, Zhao Weidong, the spokesperson of the Winter Games, told reporters at Thursday’s briefing. The competitor didn’t show any…

Beijing has scrambled to tighten travel restrictions and expand vaccination campaigns in an effort to crush rising COVID-19 infections; as the 100-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics begins, an official says the outbreak poses the biggest challenge. Beijing is at a critical stage of controlling COVID-19, Pang Xinghuo, vice head of the Beijing…

TAIPEI, Taiwan—China is in the midst of an unprecedented power crisis with at least 20 provinces across the country grappling with electricity cuts of varying degrees since August. The problem has been exacerbated by early winter, as freezing temperatures have already been recorded in parts of central and eastern China. The power shortage has been…

International groups have called for the release of two human rights activists arrested after protesting at the Acropolis in Athens on Sunday against the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. The two student activists—18-year-old Tibetan student Tsela Zoksang and 22-year-old exiled Hong Kong activist Joey Siu—were being held in detention until Monday morning in Athens pending an…

With the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics just months away, a new survey shows more than half of Canadians support boycotting the event to be hosted by the Chinese communist regime. A total of 64 percent of respondents said they would support or somewhat support a Canadian boycott of the Beijing Olympics “because of tensions between…

The European Parliament adopted a new resolution on July 8 to condemn the communist Chinese regime’s “unprecedented” crackdown of freedom in Hong Kong, calling for a boycott of the Beijing 2022 Olympics in response to human rights abuses. The urgent resolution was passed by overwhelming majority support in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, with 578 in…