China Economic ReviewBeijing’s final preparations went into full swing as the Olympic torch drew ever closer to the capital. Dress rehearsals for the opening ceremony were conducted under top-secret conditions. Officials ordered that dog meat be removed from the menus of many city restaurants and Olympic volunteer stations opened at tourist chokepoints. Foreign television networks reached an […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, defending his decision to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics: “I happen to think that humiliating China is not the best way to respect human rights. I don’t think you can boycott 1.3 billion people, a quarter of the world’s population.” Zeng Xiaoan, a department director at the Ministry […]
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The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester. Harper Collins. US$27.95 There was, toward the end of China’s last dynasty, a widely held belief in the West that this strange and faraway country was backwards, devoid of scientific interest and lacking in technological sophistication. Whatever China had learnt in the last few millennia (how to […]