In official-speak, it’s about “one world, one dream”. But as the waves of patriotic pride build, next month’s Beijing Olympics are beginning to look like a globally televised, heavily choreographed celebration of advancing, muscular Chinese nationhood. One country, one team.<\/p>\n
Using the event to showcase China’s emergence as a potentially dominant world power was always part of the Communist party’s game plan. In this sense, the medals table, which China expects to dominate, is a metaphor for broader international competition for resources and influence.<\/p>\n
After centuries of humiliations at western hands, few could fairly deny China a self-glorifying day in the sun. But how to stop Beijing over-egging its nationalist pudding \u2013 how to prevent superpower turning to super-arrogance as has happened elsewhere \u2013 is the big post-Olympic question.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a recent conference in London, Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, voiced concern that China could “go the Bush-Cheney way”, forsaking multilateralism in selfish, unheeding pursuit of perceived national interest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Simon Tisdall writes in the Guardian: In official-speak, it’s about “one world, one dream”. But as the waves of patriotic pride build, next month’s Beijing Olympics are beginning to look like a globally televised, heavily choreographed celebration of advancing, muscular Chinese nationhood. One country, one team. Using the event to showcase China’s emergence as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[5814,1972,8],"class_list":["post-22224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-chinas-rise","tag-europe-chinas-rise","tag-nationalism","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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