and then selecting a uyghur athlete to be a torch barrier at a time when the u.s. aaccusing china of committing genocide against uyghurs and then putin being xi's most important vip guest probably as a reflection of that when the russians walked out for the athlete parade, i heard a lot of chinese audience cheering but when the americans walked out it was quiet with a chinese spectator next to me just commenting out loud, the americans are always so arrogant. so it seems like it is difficult to separate politics from sports at these games. >> steve jang, thank you for all of that. with us now, we have cnn political analyst david sanger, he's a correspondent for "the new york times" and yosh rogan, a columnist for "the washington post." great to see both of you. this president xi and putin, i mean optically, them standing shoulder to shoulder and then they announced this strategic