Every big public event is a big deal for the chinese commonist party. China feels it's locked in a competition with the west, that it is winning. The olympics is a test of that performance legitimacy - and this year is particularly crucial. At the end of 20 22, there's going to be a very important, once every five years party congress,. All people expect seginping, the current leader, to seek a third term as china's supreme leader which is unprecedented.