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China: Considering the Olympics with an open mind

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008 @ 19:23 UTC

by John Kennedy

Countries:: China
Topics:: Ideas, Media, International Relations, Language
Languages:: English
Special:: Olympics

This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters. · All posts

Highly recommend you read this post from media psychologist Pamela Rutledge which would have Chinese bloggers doing countless push-ups if they (could) read it. On the recent terrorism incidents: “I can’t imagine the hoopla in Homeland Security if the U.S. had been getting the amount of terrorist threats that China has. Is there a color above ‘red alert’? … [C]an you imagine the global outrage if terrorists were to succeed in creating havoc during the Olympics?”

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jen

you forgot to link to the site…

# 2008-08-5 at 20:57 pm

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John Kennedy

Whoops. Thanks for the careful eye.

# 2008-08-6 at 1:15 am

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