As if the raging coronavirus pandemic is not enough, China faces circumstances that may make it difficult to successfully complete the 17-day Beijing Winter Olympics, which officially began Friday.Despite the Chinese government's efforts to contain the virus under its radical "zero COVID" policy, infections began to surge in early January, just one month before the opening of the Olympics, fueled by the highly contagious Omicron variant.Now, Russia's massing of troops on the Ukraine border and North Korea's escalating missile activities, along with a "diplomatic boycott" of the games initia…READ FULL ARTICLE
