China
Olympic Athletes in Terrible Conditions: ‘I’ve Been Living in Fear’
The conditions at the Beijing Olympics are almost unbearable. Reports of strict measures, testing and isolation being done has caused some, such as Polish speed skater Natalia Maliszewska to turn to social media and expose their anxiety.
“I’ve been living in fear for over a week . These mood swings, the crying that makes me breathless.” She told Reuters in an interview that she cried “like crazy” in the back of an ambulance after a 3 a.m. knock on the door of her isolation hotel room because she did not know what was happening” reports NBC News.
Belgian skeleton racer Kim Meylemans posted a video crying over facing seven days of isolation away from the Olympic Village. The Finland men’s ice hockey team accused China of not respecting human rights for one of his players Marko Antila who was not getting good food’ and was under tremendous mental stress.
Over 150 athletes and team officials have tested positive since Jan 23, making the game more about strict isolation policy than athletic performance. NBC News reports of the conditions:
Competitors are living and competing inside an Olympic bubble, or “closed loop,” and have to take Covid tests daily. If they test positive, they are taken either to an isolation facility or a hospital, depending on the severity of their symptoms, until they are discharged either through negative tests or the sign-off of a panel of medical experts.
U.S. figure skater and medal hopeful Vincent Zhou was among the latest athletes to test positive for Covid, and he was forced to withdraw from the individual event starting Tuesday.
“I have been doing everything in my power to stay free of Covid,” he said in a tearful video posted on Instagram on Monday. “I’ve isolated myself so much that the loneliness I’ve felt in the last month or two has been crushing at times.”
China has a vast network of covert police stations abroad, according to a recent report by Safeguard Defenders, an NGO that focuses on human rights violations in China and other Asian countries. These police stations serve consular functions, but are also used by China to crack down on what the CCP deems “illegal” activity of Chinese nationals abroad. The police stations include at least 38 run by the Fuzhou City police, and 22 run by the Qingtian City police. Cities housing these police stations include New York, Toronto (which has three stations), London (two), Paris (three), Buenos Aires, Rio De Janeiro, and Tokyo.
Key findings of the report are below.
“Persuaded to return”
According to China, China has “persuaded to return [to China]” 230,000 Chinese nationals living aboard from April 2021 to July 2022 alone to face charges of fraud and telecommunications fraud. A Yangxia police station set up in Mozambique, for example, persuaded a Chinese national to return to China after being accused of stealing money from his employer. Chinese authorities also put pressure on the accused family to convince the accused to surrender.
Roughly 54,000 Chinese nationals were persuaded to return from northern Myanmar alone, in the first nine months of 2021. In July 2022, the government of Wenchang City warned that its citizens living in northern Myanmar must check in with their local police stations or face multiple penalties including blocking their children from attending urban schools back in China. Similarly, in February 2022, the government of Liayang City stated that Chinese “illegally staying” in northern Myanmar must return or the bank accounts of their immediate family members could be frozen.
The Nine Forbidden Countries
China has claimed that nine countries contain serious levels of fraud and telecom fraud perpetrated by Chinese nationals. Since November 2021, China has declared that Chinese citizens living in these nine countries must return to China immediately unless they have an “emergency reason” or a “strict necessity” to travel or stay in those countries. Those countries are: Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, the UAE, and Turkey. However, the report questions whether these countries are truly awash in such fraud, as most of China’s oversees police stations are in the West, and only one of the nine countries (Cambodia) has such a police station. Chinese staying in the nine forbidden countries, as well as threats to family members as stated above, creates a “guilt-by-association” atmosphere intended to repatriate the Chinese nationals.
Conclusion
According to the report, Chinese police stations abroad serve to bypass “bilateral extradition treaties or other mechanisms of judicial cooperation” to cooperate with CCP-linked NGOs which effectively “[sets] up an alternative policing and judicial system within third countries.” Instead of using international judicial cooperation, which establishes due process, the presumption of innocence, and the right to a fair trial, China uses the above “persuade-to-return” methods and transnational police stations to circumvent international law and coerce Chinese nationals to return to China for trials. These policies show the power of China’s long-arm oppression over its own subjects.
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Bob
February 8, 2022 at 2:59 pm
And what did you morons think was going to happen when you got to the 3rd world crap hole?
Sad4theUS
February 8, 2022 at 5:36 pm
Finland accuses “China of not respecting human rights”. These countries knew China did not respect human rights yet they sent their athletes anyhow, so they have no one to blame but themselves! Also, they are the country that released the virus, so of course these athletes would be deliberately infected when they came into the country, it would give a distinct advantage to the Chinese athletes if all the rest are quarantined, isolated, terrorised, or poorly fed.
joie
February 8, 2022 at 11:07 pm
That any Western nation would allow their young athletes to even go into China at this time is madness.
PD Cottrell
February 9, 2022 at 1:45 am
The athletes should have never gone to Communist China but now should ALL LEAVE.
Patricia Nezi
February 9, 2022 at 10:22 am
Why the hell did we send our athletes to Communist China who have no respect for human life, hate America, and are now supposedly using Covid to perhaps keep Americans from competing so the Chinese have an advantage? Cheating anyone?
mic jor
February 9, 2022 at 10:44 am
This is absolutely horrible. If they do this to the Olympians there is no doubt left in my mind that the Chinese infected the world with the virus on purpose. They are not human anymore. Nuke the Forbidden City to retaliate and get these monsters off the Earth.
Nate
February 9, 2022 at 11:04 am
i really dont understand what you expected from china .
Keith L Christy
February 9, 2022 at 11:37 am
pack your bags & get out if you can!!
Publius Hamilton
February 9, 2022 at 12:14 pm
The scumbag ChiComs are not beneath manipulating tests to disqualify foreign athletes to give Chinese athletes an advantage. They’re freaking communists! Why do they have these games??
Christy Leach
February 9, 2022 at 12:48 pm
A year ago, the IOC should have postponed the 2022 Olympics until 2023. They could have then moved the venue to a site where infrastructure is already in place such as Park City, Torino, Vancouver ….anywhere but China or Russia. It’s unfair to these athletes who have trained for years to have put them in this unfortunate position. The fact China was allowed to host the games at all is shameful.
Santos Garcia Jr
February 9, 2022 at 2:22 pm
The CCP Plandemic bioweapon is a NWO Globalist Luciferian depopulation agenda! EVIDENCE? Read ‘Letter to America’ here: zionsgate.wordpress.com
Jane Schipper
February 9, 2022 at 4:33 pm
Why in the world weren’t these games boycotted. I do not feel sorry for any of these athletes. They made their beds. Now it is time to take a nap.
Tony bruno
February 10, 2022 at 12:11 pm
Someone tell spineless coward pretty boy treudou that he works for Canadians we don’t workforce him!!!!!! What a cowArd
David Macedo
February 10, 2022 at 2:09 pm
IT’S TIME FOR EVERYONE TO JUST PACK THE BAGS AND GO HOME, THAT IS THE WORST THING WE CAN DO TO THIS TYRANT!!!!!!!
Firewagon
February 13, 2022 at 3:20 pm
I would not be shedding the first tear! I would be attempting to leave that “yellow terror” country by the first available flight! Nobody I know, with the possible exception of those required to report the results of these “Games,” is watching this “propaganda” mess!
Jodi Porter
February 15, 2022 at 10:13 am
I, in some respect do not have any sympathy for these athletes, coaches, reporters, etc. They are in China. The only thing I hope this does is wake people up to the dangers of communism, marxism, socialism, etc.
I do pray for their safety. I pray that their eyes and ears will be open to the truth. And that is the truth that only God’s freedom brings.
Stephane
February 15, 2022 at 7:14 pm
you allow TYRANNY to suppress and genocide!
You do NOTHING to punish the TYRANTS!
You deserve what you get!
You knew what you were getting into before you got there!
You experienced many things china did to the world!
YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET!
You did not have to get there!
You wanted to get your medals?
YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET!
Profx
February 16, 2022 at 10:17 am
So confusing. China is our friend according to Joe and Hunter. Apparently Russia is our friend too since we gave them the oil supply business. Don’t let Joe’s pretend “tough” foreign gesturing fool you. We have already seen that in Afghanistan. Failure after Failure by Joe and the “Best” people that he surrounds himself with.
Ira Madsen
February 16, 2022 at 5:37 pm
I thought available testing (PCR) was bogus! Many, many false positives. COVID, influenza and even a head-cold will give the same result. These tests can say whatever the “doctor” desires!