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AUG 24, 2008
China Put on Great Show in Beijing, But With Iron Fist
The Seattle Times
China will put the finishing touches on the Beijing Olympics today with a closing ceremony that's expected to dazzle with performances much different from the opening.
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AUG 24, 2008
China Rules in Gold; U.S. Leads Overall
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the event at which the massive host nation put on a great - if sometimes controversial - show and flexed its imposing sports muscle on an international stage. But the Americans did pretty well, too. That's the perspective of the U.S. Olympic Committee, anyway, which said it was thrilled at its record medal haul and dignified performance despite some high-profile failures in track, boxing, baseball and softball. The Americans are assured of winning at least 107 medals - not counting the presumptive gold in men's basketball - which tops the 102 they won four years ago at the Athens Games in Greece.
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AUG 24, 2008
Was China truly ready for the Olympics?
AsiaNews.it
For China the Olympic Games were the most important event of the last few decades, a showcase for its organisational capacities and proof of its athletes’ physical prowess as they triumphed in the medal count. It was a show that the government in Beijing wanted “free of politics” but which itself “politicised” first. Here is an analysis by Li Datong, a Chinese journalist fired for criticising censorship.
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AUG 24, 2008
After Glow of Games, What Next for China?
The New York Times
The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority in China. The question now is whether a deepening self-confidence arising from the Olympic experience will lead China to further its engagement with the world and pursue deeper political reform, or whether the success of the Games and the muted Western response to repression will convince leaders that their current model is working.
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AUG 23, 2008
Beijing Olympics Provide No Gold Yet for China Stock Market, China Stocks Close Down
PR Web
China Stocks closed down today going into the final week of the Beijing Olympics. China Stock Market Expert Jim Trippon expects a rally in Shanghai Stocks and Shenzhen Stocks after the games.
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