Commentary China’s communist leaders have clamped down on coverage and commentary of the Winter Olympic games. Ask Dutch correspondent Sjoerd den Daas, who was manhandled by a security guard during a live report. The dictatorship has attempted to gag foreign athletes, banning mention of Chinese aggression (e.g., territorial theft in Asia) and repression of domestic minorities. Beijing demands Olympic media coverage portray 21st-century China’s economic and cultural power and show the world that China’s authoritarian governance model works, in contrast to the social turmoil in “liberal” states like the United States and Canada. The strategic propaganda message: demonstrate China’s growing dominance. Though seldom acknowledged, an ugly motive guides communist China’s drive for dominance: Han Chinese ethno-centrism. In an April 2020 column discussing Xi Jinping’s “Four Confidences,” I interpreted his “confidence in culture” dictum to mean confidence in ethnic “Han Chinese culture as curated by Beijing’s 21st-century urban communist authoritarian elites …