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In Face of Olympic Challenges, Communist Party Is Resilient

Jim Yardley of the New York Times is the latest to use the approach of the Olympics to look at prospects for political reform in China: …If the Olympics have presented unmistakable challenges and crises, the Communist Party has proved resilient. Public appetite for reform has not waned, but the short-term byproduct of the Olympics has been an upsurge in Chinese patriotism that bolstered the

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