Olympic credentials
and the value it holds...
This is going to be a very accessible post even by the standards of this publication. The accessibility has been a core feature that delivers insight with a density and accuracy that is nowhere else to be found. My last handful or so of posts have been written to underscore this point in their relatively shorter time horizons.
I will, in this post, convey something that is of course widely known but not widely discussed.
Who was responsible for the 2008 Olympics? Xi Jinping
Who was responsible for the 2022 Olympics? Cai Qi
The responsibility of the Olympic Games in 2022 was a test of performance for Cai Qi.
The lockdown of Shanghai during COVID in 2022 was a test of obedience for Li Qiang.
The certainty Xi Jinping requires is interesting connected to several different contexts.
Update 2026-08-22: Corrected grammar and spelling (going through old posts using a new tool). The content of the text was not changed in any way.