Tickets for the upcoming baging winter olympic games will not be sold to the general public. Authorities were always a bit wishy washy about whether they would sell tickets, how these people would enter the stadiums and who would be invited to attend. Most foreign attends to be diplomats and journalists, as well as maybe some high ranking executives at multi nationals working here. It sounds like chinas taking every precaution here, though they are still loosening the rules to accommodate these games.
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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