1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
PoliticsChina

Olympic struggle: Can China beat Omicron?

26:05

This browser does not support the video element.

January 21, 2022

China is completing preparations for the upcoming Winter Olympics. But can Bejing deliver on its vision of a zero-COVID bubble around the games? Guests: Sou-Jie van Brunnersum (DW), Tobias Kurth (Charité), Kai Kupferschmidt (freelance journalist)

Image: DW

 

Sou Jie van Brunnersum, DW: "A 'zero COVID' policy might have benefitted China the past two years, but omicron and the Olympics could be a game changer.

 

 

Image: DW

 

Tobias Kurth, Charité: „The omicron wave cannot be stopped in any region, even by massive measures, but only slowed down.

 

Image: DW

 

 

 Kai Kupferschmidt is a science journalist: “With much of the country vaccinated, the question of what an exit from ‘zero COVID’ in China could and should look like looms large.”
 

Skip next section About the show

About the show

To the point — International Debate from Berlin

Strong opinions, clear points of view, international agendas. Three journalists join our presenter and go straight to the point on an international issue that’s making news. It’s controversy and confrontation. It’s background and analysis. It’s the issues that are moving our world.

Skip next section DW's Top Story

DW's Top Story

Skip next section More stories from DW