The games don't get under way until february fourth, but she's been reporting on the drama that torch has been lit for months. Emily thang is m p r bagin cors ondent. The winter olympics are always a showcase for any country, and so china saw this as a way to high light how the country had developed since the two thousand eat summer olympics. But when you ac covet onto it, now it's also going to be a test of can they control the epidemic and maintain their zero coved policies?
The Games don’t begin until February 4, but the drama around the pandemic, free speech, and diplomatic boycotts has been building for months. NPR’s Emily Feng explains from Beijing.
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