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发帖数: 2555 | 1 As the Beijing Winter Olympics gets underway, artist Ai Weiwei is once again
criticizing China's ruling Communist Party -- and the International Olympic
Committee (IOC), which he said is "ignoring" the safety of the country's
athletes by prioritizing business and "standing next to the authoritarians."
The world-renowned Chinese dissident and rights activist made the comments
to CNN's Christiane Amanpour in an interview from Portugal, where he has
been living in self-exile since 2021. Fearing for his safety were he to
return to China, where he was once detained for 81 days for "inciting the
subversion of state power," Ai has resided around Europe for almost seven
years.
Years prior to his departure from his home country, Ai famously consulted on
the design of the venue hosting Friday night's opening ceremony: The
Beijing National Stadium, or "Bird's Nest."
The open-roofed structure, wrapped in interwoven steel structs, functioned
as one of the main venues for the Summer Olympics in 2008. A collaboration
with Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron, the stadium took five years
to build and was designed to represent a new, modern China. |
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