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The Chinese Communist Party always medals in moral corruption

19 February 2022

3:03 AM

19 February 2022

3:03 AM

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will draw to a close on Sunday, and few will mourn its passing. The spectacle of a totalitarian regime mounting a Games while prosecuting a genocide have rightly drawn denunciations, diplomatic boycotts and precious few television viewers. But this Olympiad was instructive in at least one important respect: to remind the free world how the Chinese Communist Party eventually corrupts everything it touches, for its own ends.

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