What Next: How China Is Spinning the Olympics

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🗓️ 31 January 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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No one is happy with the way this year’s Winter Olympics are unfolding. Athletes are frustrated with China’s excessive pandemic precautions. Diplomatic tensions are rising. Are the second COVID games on thin ice? Guest: Henry Bushnell, features writer for Yahoo Sports. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A brand new movie from the Paw Patrol is ready to launch.
0:03.8	Did he say launch?
0:04.8	No, I said launch.
0:07.8	This October, we got superpowers.
0:10.0	Awesome.
0:11.0	Prepare for a movie event so enormous.
0:13.0	Go right in with the big does now.
0:15.0	You'll need to see it on the biggest screen possible.
0:19.0	We're going to need a new name for ourselves.
0:20.5	How about the Paw Patrol?
0:22.0	Paw Patrol.
0:23.0	We're just a little bit extra.
0:24.5	Paw Patrol, the Mighty Movie, it's the first this weekend.
0:27.5	Only in cinema, September 13.
0:29.0	Book tickets now.
0:37.5	Henry Bushnell, from over at Yahoo Sports,
0:40.0	he is supposed to get on a plane tomorrow.
0:42.5	I'm traveling to Beijing in the words of our editors
0:46.0	and probably a lot of other editors
0:47.5	around the US media landscape as of now.
0:51.5	If he gets on this plane,
0:53.0	Henry's going to be headed to China to cover the Olympics.
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