The Gold Medal for Anti-Beijing Hysteria Goes to the NYT for Its Unhinged Attack on China’s Olympic Success

The Gold Medal for Anti-Beijing Hysteria Goes to the NYT for Its Unhinged Attack on China’s Olympic Success: Not even China’s sporting excellence can pass without comment in the United States, as a highly critical article in the New York Times on Thursday demonstrated. It’s typical of the hysteria culture that’s now rife in America. On Thursday, the NYT published an astonishing article titled ‘The Chinese Sports Machine’s Single Goal: The Most Golds At Any Cost’. The piece effectively claimed China had rigged the Olympics for political purposes, accusing it of “putting tens of thousands of children in government-run training schools” and funnelling young athletes into “less prominent sports that Beijing hopes to dominate.” The prize? To earn as many … Continue reading →