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The Asian Games scheduled to be held in Hangzhou, China in September have been postponed. Ahead of the October National Congress (party congress) that will confirm the long-term tenure of Chinese President Xi Jinping (3 consecutive terms) amid a high emergency due to the late spread of the novel coronavirus infection ( COVID-19 ) Omicron mutation in China. It seems to reflect China’s political considerations that it must contain the spread of COVID-19 . On the 6th, major media outlets such as the People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China, reported that “the 19th Asian Games,...
