Formula 1 announced they cancelled the upcoming 2023 Chinese Grand Prix due to the current “COVID-19 situation” in the country.
Kevin Magnussen, Lando Norris, Zhou Guanyu, Fernando Alonso, and Mick Schumacher via FORMULA 1 YouTube
Formula 1 posted to Twitter announcing the cancellation, “The 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation.”
An attached image also states, “Chinese Grand Prix will not take place in 2023.”
Formula 1 Twitter
The organization provided more details in a brief press release. It states, “Formula 1 can confirm, following dialogue with the promoter and relevant authorities, that the 2023 Chinese Grand Prix will not take place due to the ongoing difficulties presented by the COVID-19 situation.”
“Formula 1 is assessing alternative options to replace the slot on the 2023 calendar and will provide an update on this in due course,” they concluded.
Formula 1 field at 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix via FORMULA 1 YouTube
At the time of the announcement on December 2nd, Chinese Communist authorities were still enforcing their zero-Covid policy. Widespread protests had swept the country after a reported apartment fire killed numerous residents who had been welded shut into their homes.
Human Events Senior Editor and the host of Human Events Daily Jack Posobiec covered the situation and noted that “a building full of Uyghurs and Han Chinese citizens, it caught fire.”
He continued, “Well that building had been under three months of extreme lockdown measures. … This high-rise people have been welded into their homes, door shut. Cars were strewn about outside. There was no way for anybody to get in. There was no way for anyone to get out, and the people were trapped like this for months.”
Posobiec then detailed, “While you were eating Thanksgiving dinner a fire broke out in this high-rise on the 15th floor and if anyone who’s ever lived in a high-rise in any city in the world knows a fire breaking out on a high floor is one of the most dangerous and deadly things that can happen.”
“But here’s what happened to those people, they were locked inside their homes by their own government. They were forced inside. They were stuck inside and their loved ones were forced to listen while these people, Han Chinese and Uyghurs burned alive at the order of the Chinese Communist Party,” Posobiec detailed. “This was a massacre. This was the Xinjiang Massacre.”
Jack Posobiec via Human Events Daily YouTube
Following this massacre The White Paper protests began sweeping the country. Posobiec explained, “The people, all across China, are coming forward. And they are holding up pieces of paper, blank pieces of paper. Why? Because they know you can get arrested for holding up an anti-government slogan, anti-party slogan. So they’re holding up blank pieces of paper and they are calling it the White Paper Revolution. So to protest censorship they’re just holding up blank pieces of paper.”
“There’s another thing they’re saying,” he added. “They’re saying ‘Take down the CCP.’ They’re chanting it in Mandarin. The first place I saw this was in Shanghai, but then I realized that it’s going on in cities across the country. It’s even taking place in Beijing just a couple of miles from Tiananmen Square.”
Jack Posobiec via Human Events Daily YouTube
The Guardian now reports that the Chinese Communist authorities have abandoned the zero-Covid policy with the vice-premier and Covid chief Sun Chunlan declaring that the country had “withstood the test” and there was a “new situation.”
According to the British outlet that new situation is “the prevailing Omicron variant [is] a less lethal version of the original disease.”
Kevin Magnussen, Zhou Guanyu, Fernando Alonso, Lando Norris, and Mick Schumacher via FORMULA 1 YouTube
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