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Chinolympics Countdown
With one year and two weeks to go, there’s been a lot of news about China and the Olympics this week. Here are some essential readings:
Wired magazine
By Spencer Reiss
July 24, 2007
Summary: Beijing goes all out to greenify the 2008 Olympics, hoping the city will look pretty enough to impress foreign guests and become clean enough to please the lungs of the world’s best athletes…but can the city really be saved?
Agence Global
By Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
July 27, 2007
Summary: Will the Olympics change China? It already has. What can we expect to see? “Whatever happens, we will be surprised. The regime will strive to control matters, but the unexpected will occur.”
Reuters
By Nick Mulvenney
July 25, 2007
Summary: Officials tell citizens, “No spitting, no littering, no Chinglish, no ugliness, and always stand in line!”
The Associated Press
July 24, 2007
Summary: Chinese government spies are keeping tabs on potentially disruptive foreign activists who might cause a ruckus at next year’s games.
CNN
By Hamish McKenzie
July 26, 2007
Best quote: “It’s the Olympics. It’s international. It’s China’s coming-out party. It’s China’s face,” McGregor says. “Who wants to put on the Olympics and be looked at as the low-class pirate country that steals everyone else’s trademarks?”
China Daily
By Li Fangchao
July 27, 2007
Summary: Beijing’s municipal government wants special permission to widen its regulatory scope for issues of public security, traffic, workplace safety, environment protection and food safety, especially for the Olympics.
[tags]China, Olympics, Beijing[/tags]
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