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Professor Susan Shirk Comments on the 2008 Olympics in China

08/14/2007
San Jose Mercury News

Hosting the Summer Olympics is a coup for any country, but China regards the 2008 Beijing Games as nothing short of a historic marker of its return to glory. The Olympics is giving the country a coveted international spotlight reserved for the world's leading nations. China intends to use that spotlight to display to the world its re-emergence as an economic, cultural and military giant, echoing its ancient dynastic greatness. More...

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