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AUG 25, 2008
With Olympics Over, China’s Self-Confidence Soars
NPR
"This is incredibly dramatic for a global perception of China, and also for China's self-perception [that] it can handle something on this scale," says historian Jonathan Spence of Yale University. "It's a kind of financial coming-of-age. It'll be an important marker, probably in a positive direction, as far as we can tell at the moment."
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AUG 25, 2008
Olympic Splendour Offers Few Clues For Those Betting on China’s Number Game
The Times
If staging the most extravagant Olympics in history was about persuading the world to sit up and gape at Beijing, it has probably worked. The great question - now that China has everyone's attention - is where to buy tickets for the second act. As the Olympic afterglow fades, the picture becomes far more obscure. China's vast and enticing economy is a bewildering labyrinth of numbers.
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AUG 25, 2008
Hard-line China May Return
Daily Yomiuri Online
Experts predict Beijing will resume its hard-line stance on human rights and national security issues following the the conclusion of the Summer Games. Before and during the Olympics, China had to pay due heed to pressure from the international community over such issues. In this respect, observers say the country's future is unclear--not only in diplomatic terms, but also in the direction the economy and society is set to take.
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AUG 25, 2008
China’s Olympic legacy
Al Jazeera English
After living and breathing the Olympics for seven years, for a while at least China will be able to bask in the games' success. "Post-Olympics China, at least in the first one or two years, will be marked with triumphant glory and renewed ambition," Professor Xu Wu, a former Xinhua reporter and now professor of journalism at Arizona State university, told Al Jazeera.
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AUG 24, 2008
Going For The Gold
The New York Times
This Olympics, I’m ruefully told, was about the changing of the guard. It was the symbol of an emergent China and the waning of the West; the representation, in red shorts, swimsuits and tights, of a new order in sports. Yet for all its novelty, the new order seems little different from the old.
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