Amid confusion over what caused the outages and how long they might last, influential commentators started to blame the country’s emissions-reduction targets.
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Participants in 2022 Beijing Olympics will never leave ‘closed-loop’ bubble while in China
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Residents support overseas fans ban in Beijing Olympics
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