Beijing’s Olympic Funk
Two rather odd
pieces of news were circulating in China last week, at a time when
increasingly nervous authorities grow more prudish about the
possibility that somebody, somewhere, will do something that
embarrasses the country in advance of the US$42 billion Olympic
Games, which are due to start in August.
The first,
carried by Xinhua as a photo story, was of…
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