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Xinhua: Are we ready for the Olympic Games?Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, May 22, 2006 10:05 AM
 The Olympic Gymnastics Stadium - image from Xinhua State-owned news agency Xinhua's top headline on their Chinese website this morning is: Are we ready for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? The answer comes in the form of a long essay that manages to quote Lu Xun and Hu Jintao, tell the story of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, rehash a bunch of Beijing Olympic slogans (green Olympics, humanistic Olympics etc.), invoke the Party's previously stated intention of building a society of well-off people (小康社会), and criticize Beijing swearing (京骂). The answer to the question posed by the headline is not given until the end of the article:
That will put any doubts to rest! |
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Comments on Xinhua: Are we ready for the Olympic Games?
People from the west always wonder why Chinese people and the government make such a big fuss about the olympics, but the truth is if the games can really bring the country sth good,like the environment and potiencial democracy, it is not a bad thing. But there is really a long way to go for the government to handle all these problems and try to present a perfect and better than ever Olympic Games.