February 25th, 2008
Will a changed China emerge from the Olympics?
Beijing - — Some 15 years after a failed bid to host the Olympics, China is less than 200 days away from its global coming-out party at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games.
China’s first-ever Olympics are a fairly safe gamble in the realm of world politics. Although the risk of overwhelming pollution, political protests and traffic gridlock could mar the August event, the rewards - namely China assuming its place in the world’s collective conscience as a global power - are apt to win out in the end, many China watchers say.
