News Analysis Beijing regards sports as an avenue to assert dominance over the world, a goal it is determined to achieve through central planning, state funding, and a willingness to sacrifice its own citizens. “Be Positive, Work Hard, Climb the High Mountain, Win Glory for the Country,” reads a sign at the Shanghai Sports School. For the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), sports are not about self-improvement or healthy competition. Sports are one more arena where the Party can claim the nation’s global supremacy. To this end, the athletes are disposable tools of the state. In the entire history of China’s participation in the Summer Olympics (through 2020), it has won a total of 634 medals, including 262 gold, 199 silver, and 173 bronze; whereas the United States has won a total of 2,635 medals, including 1,061 gold, 836 silver, and 738 bronze. In 15 of the 28 Summer Games the United States competed in, it has won the …
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