When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, the event was described ad nauseam as being like a debutante’s ‘coming out party’. In truth, it was more apt to see it as a coming-of-age party, akin to a Bar Mitzvah, as the PRC celebrated its economic and political adulthood. Extending the metaphor further, Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympics, now coming to a close, has seemed more of a truculent teenager’s house party — with only preferred friends welcome, like Vladimir Putin, and with the
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