Winning and then staging what are sure to be spectacular and successful games will help justify the party’s continued rigid authority, and let it bask in most Chinese people’s excitement to be hosts.
But the games will also be seen as one of history’s most expensive, and well-orchestrated, coming-out parties.
After three decades of breakneck economic growth, [...]
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Posted by Matt in June 2nd, 2008 | no comment
Published in China, Economic Growth, Excitement, Games, Hosts, Modern China, Neighbours, Olympics, Ring Roads, Sports Stadiums, Three Decades, Underground Stations, Unease
Australia welcomes China with half-open arms
Posted by Matt in May 6th, 2008 | no comment
Published in Australia, China, Ascendancy, Australia Open, Billions, Chinese Dragon, Coal, Desert Camps, Dragon, Dusty Desert, Economic Boom, Fly, Insatiable Appetite, Iron Ore, minerals, Mining Engineers, Raw Materials, Signs, Stock Exchange, Truck Drivers, Unease, Unemployment
It has fuelled a 17-year economic boom in which truck drivers can earn £60,000 a year, property prices have soared and there are not enough pilots to fly desperately needed mining engineers into dusty desert camps.
Australia is growing rich from China’s insatiable appetite for raw materials, selling billions of pounds worth of iron ore, coal [...]
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