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China’s dash for freedom | The Beijing Olympics

economist.com — China’s rise is a cause for celebration —but despite the Beijing Olympics, not because of them. “SPORT”, as George Orwell noted more than 60 years ago, “is an unfailing cause of ill-will.” This newspaper generated some of its own in 2001, when we argued against the award of the 2008 Olympics to Beijing, and drew comparisons to the Nazi-organisez...

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