It's not easy for Yan Jiarong.
The hostile press from the West makes life difficult for her.
Madame Yan, spokeswoman for the Chinese Olympic organizers, is supposed to count the spectators at the Olympics.
Anyone who thinks it can't be that difficult in a country whose statistics authority has just had all winter sports enthusiasts line up for roll call and counted them up, from number one, Xi Jinping, to number 346,000,000, Gu Ailing, they are sorely mistaken.
Sure, only those who are invited by the party come in, many aren't, and 90 percent of the time they sit quietly.
But how is Madame Yan supposed to count them?
"It's a very complicated task," she says.
Really?
Can't the facial recognition cameras at the entrance help?
And what about good old handwork in finding viewers?
A magnifying glass would help.
A magnifying glass for Madame Yan, please!
But where are they, the Chinese magnifying glasses?
Just not to be found in Beijing.
Maybe all of them in Xinjiang, where the Chinese are certainly still diligently searching for the Uyghurs in the camps that the West is always talking about.
Suggestion for improvement, Madame Yan, it can't be long until the upcoming games in China: magnifying glasses instead of slow motion.
Then we might find the Chinese athletes we want to interview.
And sometimes you can just estimate the number of viewers, we're not like that.
It won't be 346,000,000.
Often it's not even 346.