For Chinese leaders, Olympics weren't 2022's big-ticket item

Communist Party? That's a joke. They aren't communists. If they were, they'd be controlling what gets produced and have nearly unlimited social programs like they did pre-1980.

Xi's power consolidation aside, if someone adamantly aims to batter China's effort in making the Winter Olympics a success (with IOC collaboration), there will be no end to such trivial & superfluous allegations.

It can only reflects their spurious intense jealousy..

Communist Party? That's a joke. They aren't communists. If they were, they'd be controlling what gets produced and have nearly unlimited social programs like they did pre-1980.

Please pay attention to Xi Jinping's speeches. That is exactly where PRC is going under his, ahem, cough cough, leadership. Xi is a Maoist true believer who claims in his speeches that events in China have proven Marx and Mao correct. He supports State Owned Industries over private enterprise to the point of telling China's business leaders to take their direction from those very same sclerotic SOEs. He has told all of China's tech companies to seek and obtain approval from the central government before releasing any new apps. He is in the process of instituting wealth redistribution on a massive scale. He is undoing everything Deng, Jiang and Hu did as fast as internal party politics allows. Xi has his enemies within the party as the CCP today has become a billionaires club, but what he did to Tencent, Alibaba and ByteDance are just the beginning. These things take some time to unfold but if you pay attention to Xi's speeches you can see clearly where he is headed.