To be read as a direct continuation of Part 6; https://watchitdie.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-2022-winter-olympics-opening_8.html
A Quantum of Celebration.
The previous section, which I entitled; "Dandelion." Ended with light projected pollen spores travelling up a column at the stage-rear wall of the arena.
As they reached the arena roof they set off fireworks. Spelling out the phrases; "Spring" and "Lichun (The Beginning of Spring) in English/Latin and Chinese characters.
An example of a message being communicated in the form of light. From the Earth's surface to the Heavens.
A reference to China's Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite. Which makes China the first and only nation to make use of Quantum Encryption/Cryptography.
This sequence began with data returning from the Heavens to the Earth's surface.
In the form of Augmented Reality (AR) snowflakes. Each bearing the name of a competing nation. In English/Latin and Chinese characters.
Another opportunity for China to boast about QUESS. As the only nation able to do Quantum Encryption/Cryptography they are entitled to boast about it.
As the "snowflakes" reached the arena floor. They were joined by a cast of all female performers.
Each carrying a physical "snowflake" bearing the name of a competing nation. In English/Latin and Chinese characters.
In this digital age; "Augmented Reality (AI)" refers to any scenario where real life, reality. Is augmented by digital data.
The problem is that you need a digital medium in order to access the digital data. Such as the TV screens we were all using to view the Opening Ceremony.
Without that digital medium. Such as if you were physically in the arena crowd. Then you can't access the digital data. Meaning you would have just seen an empty arena rather than the falling "snowflakes."
The use of the physical "snowflakes" solved that problem. Being reality rather than Augmented Reality. Viewable to all.
At the 2018 Winter Olympic Opening ceremony the South Korean hosts faced a similar problem. Incorporating the first ever AR Olympic Rings.
These looked amazing to everyone watching on TV. However it left the people who were actually there just staring into the emptiness of the night sky. Wondering when the Olympic Rings would appear.
At the 2020 Summer Olympic Closing Ceremony the Japanese hosts also included an AR sequence. During the section in which the Athletes Arrived.
There the Japanese hosts solved the AR problem by giving Athletes and others in attendance a special Smart Phone App. Which allowed them to view the AR elements.
While giving Japan an opportunity. To show off about being ever so slightly more technologically advanced than their great South Korean rivals.
The quality of the digital animation used by China was not quite as good as that used by either South Korea or Japan.
Their solution to the AR problem, physical lumps of metal being carried by human beings. Certainly wasn't as advanced as Japan's.
This was China acknowledging that while it is fast developing. It is still and Economically Developing Nation. So despite its QUESS satellite China is still not as technologically advanced as either South Korea or Japan.
As was discussed during China's section of the 2018 Winter Olympic Closing Ceremony. Along with the Olympic Rings section of this Opening Ceremony.
China is very keen to move beyond its current status of; "Workshop of the World." Increasingly developing its own technology rather than simply manufacturing everyone else's technology.
Eventually the all female cast of performers carrying the physical "snowflakes" converged around the recessed circle in the centre of the arena floor. Forming a circle of their own.
That circle then expanded out to form an Extraterrestrial Sunrise. That is to say a sunrise viewed from outside of planet Earth. Such as if you were standing on the Moon and watching the Sun emerge from behind the Earth.
Or if you were watching from an artificial satellite orbiting the Earth. Such as China's QUESS or its Heavenly Palace (Tiangong) Space Station.
When viewing an Extraterrestrial Sunrise you are able to see the; "Geocorona." Or the Earth's Corona. The gases which make up the outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
As I'm sure we've all learned during these Pandemic years. The word; "Corona" is Latin meaning; "Crown." It is derived from; "Korone," Ancient Greek for; "Wreath" or; "Garland."
The; "Coronavirus" takes its name from the way its Spike Proteins appear on a 2 dimensional Electronic Scanning Microscope image. In which they appear to encircle the main body of the virus in a circle or wreath.
The physical "snowflakes" then became Laser or Light Projected "snowflakes." Seeming to melt from the hands of the women carrying them onto the arena floor. Then form a circle of their own around the recessed circle in the centre of the arena floor.
This was another example of a recurring theme of the Opening Ceremony. The contrast between Ancient/Traditional and Modern. In this case old, physical snowflakes giving way to the new, high-tech snowflakes.
The Opening Ceremony. Along with the games themselves were very interested in one particular contrast between Traditional and Modern.
The traditional, Confucian attitudes towards women and their role with in society. Its conflict with the modern, core Socialist value of Equality Between the Sexes.
Having gathered around the recessed centre circle. These individual "snowflakes" joined together to form a giant, single "snowflake."
Now definitely being formed by Laser. This giant "snowflake" then rose into the air between the arena floor and the arena roof.
It then began to arc its way across the arena. In the wave-like shape of an; "Ecliptic."
The Ecliptic is the path taken by one object as it orbits another. Or appears to orbit it.
Both QUESS and the Tiangong Space Station have their own Ecliptics as they orbit the Earth.
It is from Jupiter's apparent Ecliptic around the Earth. That we get the 12 Earthly Branches. Which, along with the 10 Heavenly Stems make up the Traditional Chinese Calendar.
To really emphasise this giant "snowflakes" path along an Ecliptic. The female performers were still forming the shape of an Extraterrestrial Sunrise.
Above and beyond that Extraterrestrial Sunrise on the arena floor was projected stars. While a Moon appeared on the column running up the stage-rear wall.
The Satellite Snowflake then took the place of the Moon on the column running up the stage-rear wall. In then tumbled down the column.
This was reference to the ill-fated Miley Cyrus episode of; "Saturday Night Live (SNL)." Where she appeared alongside Elon Musk on May 8th 2021 (8/5/21).
On April 29th (29/4/21) China put its Tiangong Space Station into orbit. The Long March 5B rocket then began a supposedly uncontrolled, unpredictable and dangerous descent back to Earth.
The World, especially Elon Musk's SpaceX then watched. As China's rocket twisted and spun over 425,000m and 11 days before safely splashing down in the Indian Ocean.
Around 45 minutes before that episode of SNL was broadcast live.
At which point. China won all of the Diving medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
It was Team GB's Tom Daley being donated a Diving Gold Medal. On July 26h (26/7/21). Which was really the first warning sign that the Summer Olympics had lost touch with reality.
China was bringing it up here to allow for all of those issues to be discussed. While taking a deserved opportunity to show-off a bit.
At the same time reminding the US. There was only one possible reason for Miley Cyrus and Elon Musk to appear together on SNL.
To introduce Miley Cyrus to Elon Musk. So the three of us could talk directly. Me using my skills as a Military Intelligence Officer, Elon Musk using his Starlink communications satellite constellation.
To work through a menu of options and outcomes. To keep Miley Cyrus' deepest, lightest secrets out of tabloids like TMZ.
While doing the US the massive favour. Of at least giving them the chance to catch-up to the Child-Like Ciphers which featured so heavily at the 2018 Winter games and 2020 Summer games.
The US is, clearly, still a very long way off something like China's QUESS satellite.
At around 19:45 on 15/3/22 (UK date) I'll pick this up tomorrow.
Edited at around 17:45 on 16/3/22 (UK date) to tidy the above and copy & paste;
As the Satellite Snowflake reached the bottom of the column. It seemed to turn into quantum particles of light energy. Which spread out across the arena floor.
These particles of quantum light energy then reformed. In the shape of the Earth's surface as seen from space.
This image of the Earth's surface also included swirling green lights. Representing the Aurora Borealis or; "Northern Lights."
The term; "Aurora Borealis" is made up of; "Aurora," the Greek goddess of Dawn or Sunrise. Along with; "Borealis," the Greek god of the North Wind.
Which rather sums up what the Aurora Borealis are. They are solar winds colliding with the; "Magnetosphere," the Earth's magnetic field.
This changes the paths of electronically charged sub-atomic particles such as Electrons and Protons. Allowing them to enter the Earth's atmosphere.
Within the Earth's atmosphere these electronically charged sub-atomic particles collide with atmospheric gases. Increasing their electrical charge and causing them to emit light.
Red and Green for Oxygen, depending on its altitude. Blue for Nitrogen. Along with colours such as Yellow and Pink. Which are a mixture of Red, Green and Blue.
A process which is similar to that of the function of a Laser.
Amid this image of the Earth's surface rose a single giant physical Snowflake. A physical version of the Satellite Snowflake. Again marking the transition between Ancient/Traditional and Modern.
Apparently to be made up of the small physical "snowflakes." Each bearing the name of a competing nation.
This giant Snowflake stood on a frame of Olive Branches.
At the Ancient Greek Olympics victory was rewarded not with medals. But with a Wreath or Korone of Olive Branches.
The Silk Road Awaits.
We were then shown a short video. Featuring people across a wide variety of locations. First preparing to watch, then watching the Olympics as they got underway.
As was a main theme at the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. Which was expanded upon at the 2020 Summer games.
Between the 3rd Century B.C and the 19th Century A.D. Global trade was dominated by the; "Silk Road."
Built around the trade in silk this was a vast network of trade routes centred around China. Stretching from Japan in the east. Across Europe and down into Sub-Saharan Africa in west, south-west.
For around 2,000 years absolutely all exchanges between different cultures, nations and people occurred on the Silk Road. Not just goods like silk. Also technological advances.
The earlier Olympic Rings section reminded us that China was one of the first cultures to use ink. Along with inventing paper. It is along the Silk Road that paper spread throughout the World.
What is commonly known as; "India Ink" is actually a Chinese invention. Using materials such as Carbon Black imported from India to China via the Silk Road.
The two "Opium Wars" were fought by Britain. To force Chinese people to recreationally use Opium grown in Britain's India colony. Then imported to China along the Silk Road.
The Silk Road was also a vital route for the transfer culture and ideas. Such as Aristotle's notion of "Heartstrings" or Arab/Persian concepts of Mathematics and Astronomy.
As we learned during the Opening Ceremony of the 2020 Summer Olympics. It was the start of the European Colonial Era which marked the start of China's decline.
The Portuguese Black Ships arrival in Japan opening up much faster maritime trade routes. Making the Silk Road obsolete.
China is now trying to restore its place in the World by re-opening the Silk Road. Under its "One Belt, One Road Initiative (Belt and Road Initiative)."
The purpose of the One Belt, One Road Iniative is to build a network of modern transport infrastructure, including air and sea ports, along the path of the Silk Road. Japan to the east. Across Europe and down into Sub-Saharan Africa to the west, south-west.
This video is supposed to represent the Belt and Road Initiative.
So you had people standing on a road in what seemed to be a European city. People at a railway station in an Asian city.
Along with people in hardhats surrounded by heavy equipment such as cranes, shipping containers and dumper trucks. In sandy, deserty conditions.
These could represent a variety of both wet ports used by ships and dry ports used by trucks and trains. Across a host of nations in China, Central Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
There were also a lot of young people watching the games on satellite TV. Both in places like barbershops and cafes. Along with in schools.
This was to highlight that alongside transport infrastructure. The One Belt, One Road Initiative also includes social infrastructure.
Things like the building of upwards of 1,200 schools across Sub-Saharan Africa. Along with the; "Access to Satellite TV for 10,000 African Villages" project. The name of which rather neatly explains its objective.
Most of China's Belt and Road Initiative projects, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, are built around the principle of; "Build, Operate, Transfer (BOT)."
That means that China will build something like a sea port. Then operate it until local people can be trained to do it themselves. At which point it is transferred to the control of the country where it is located.
A principle which obligates China to make a long-term commitment to educating the local population. In order for them to be able to run the project themselves.
These people in hardhats in sandy, deserty conditions. Surrounding by heavy equipment like cranes, shipping containers and dumper trucks.
They could also represent mines and quarries. Particularly for Rare Earth Minerals. Such as Cobalt, Lithium, Niobium, Tungsten and Tantalum. Which are essential to all modern electronics. Particularly their batteries.
So China has a huge appetite for these Rare Earth Minerals as it makes all of you all of your electronic devices. Such as computers, cellphones and, increasingly cars.
Both in its role as the Workshop of the World. Where it builds everyone else's designs. Along with building more of its own designs as China increasingly hopes to do.
As this variety of
people watched the games get underway. In their variety of locations.
They started performing interpretive dances representing Winter Olympic
sports. Interspersed with footage of the actual sports.
So the young people in the barbershops and cafes seemed to attempt Curling.
The (African) children in their (Chinese built) school would lean to the left and to their right in their seats. As the Bobsleighers would lean to steer down the track.
There seemed to be a particularly focus on skating sports. Things like Ice Hockey, Speed Skating and Figure-Skating.
The entire concept itself seemed to be heavily inspired by Figure-Skating. Where athletes have to choose a piece of music then use it in an interpretive dance routine to tell a story.
Somewhat worryingly. It was a woman at one of these Rare Earth Mineral mines who was attempting Biathlon. Particularly the opening fire with a rifle.
A comment on the business model the west has long used to obtain Rare Earth Minerals and other commodities. Particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa.
First give one group of people some guns. Then get them to attack another group of people who you have also given guns too.
Once the fighting is well underway. Force both groups of people to buy more guns from you. In exchange for Rare Earth Minerals and other commodities. For a tiny fraction of their market value.
This is a business model the west has particularly used in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Using nations to its north; Rwanda, Kenya and Somalia as its supply route out to sea.
It is a business model that China is concerned that the west is going to start using in Afghanistan. China's immediate neighbour.
Aside from being able to import raw materials. China's other main objective from the Belt and Road Initiative is to export Chinese made goods to countries like the DRC.
Something which can only happen if those nations are given a fair price for their raw materials. Allowing them to develop economically.
So the business model the Chinese are employing to the south of the DRC, through nations like Tanzania. Is very different to the one the west is employing to the north of the DRC.
Towards the end of the video. Both the people doing the actual sports, along with the people doing interpretive dance versions of the sports.
They would fall, struggle to get up. Then triumphantly rise again.
The video ended with the slogans. In both English/Latin and Chinese characters;
"Every Rise."
"Every Fall."
"We're In This Together."
"#StrongerTogether."
Alongside the long-term commitment China has made to its partners along the One Belt, One Road Initiative. "All Weather Friends" as it's known in the jargon.
This was a reference to how Global Supply Chains ground to a halt during the Pandemic. The challenges of getting them up and running again.
Unfortunately. US/UK-led NATO have decided that they don't want to engage with China or anyone else in that rather important discussion.
Choosing instead to launch their current attack on Ukraine.
So again. Here I will respect NATO's choice. No matter how insane.
To be continued in Part 8.
18:10 on 16/3/22 (UK date).
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