🕊️ From Beijing 2022 to Milan–Cortina 2026: The Olympic Agenda and the Return of Strategic Meaning

On Sunday, November 9, 2025, as lights, cheers and history illuminated Guangzhou for the opening of China’s 15th National Games — the first ever to be jointly hosted across Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao — President Xi Jinping met with IOC President Kirsty Coventry and Honorary President for Life Thomas Bach.

The meeting, highlighted by @XisMoments, was not only a gesture of Olympic continuity but also a symbol of China’s expanding cultural unity and its aspiration to connect domestic harmony with the universal spirit of the Games.

The Beijing 2022 Winter Games had closed on February 20, 2022; two days later, Russia invaded Ukraine.
What should have been a triumph of harmony became a silent wound to Beijing’s moral prestige.
Xi Jinping did not spoil the closing ceremony — he waited.
But the “friendship without limits” declared with Moscow had already been shattered, not by diplomacy, but by a missile over Kyiv.

As the world prepares for Milan–Cortina 2026 and looks toward Los Angeles 2028, the Olympic sequence resumes its role as the calendar of civilization — a chronometer of global conscience.
The torch now passes westward, where Los Angeles 2028 may become the Games of Rebalancing: a return to narrative over chaos, meaning over domination.

In parallel, Donald Trump acts on a different front — but within the same logic of transition.
His decision to pause the delivery of Tomahawks to Ukraine, far from hesitation, aims to reshape the logic of sanctions and reclaim strategic authorship.

Likewise, his declared intent to re-engage the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the Abraham Accords signals a shift from military confrontation to narrative resolution — from managing war to mastering peace.

The two gestures — Xi’s at Guangzhou, Trump’s in Washington — converge across the symbolic bridge between, in one part, Beijing 2022 and Milan–Cortina 2026, and, in another, Paris 2024 and Los Angeles 2028.

Sport is a game changer.

It restores the measure of civilization, reminding us that force no longer destroys — it safeguards peace, and restores meaning.

>This is what I have said, from now on:
Every single person, through his own voice, chooses the reality they wish to bring into being.
Thus, monsters disappear.

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