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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."+ z3 F3 E% G7 Q c4 Q
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"Without the Olympics' willingness to play, China could never have had this kind of opportunity to show the world the power of a national mind so sharply focused on an instrument of good., fear China a little less, maybe even like it a little?"4 C+ B! T9 t$ {
----------------------------------------------- ' t2 V3 I7 q% x+ A* U' b5 M. {the meaning of the big party is inestimable.