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