matter. bach in beijing is expected to meet with peng soon. the olympic bubble is holding the athletes, the person pell and incoming media kept separate from the rest of china. this as the number of new covid-19 cases continues to rise and spread across the mainland. china facing a renewed challenge to halt this latest surge. snap lockdowns, mass testing and contact tracing and all a bit stepped up as the country works to show its superiority in containing the virus. state media continuing to label the virus as an imported threat, even dating back to the initial outbreak in wuhan, a consistent propaganda effort to deflect blame and refocus global attention on what s supposed to be a spectacular and unifying event. and threatening to cast a darker shadow over these games, growing tensions between russia and ukraine with russian president vladimir putin.