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The Beijing Olympics reveal an unexpected face of China where power and vulnerability mingle
How Brasilia sees Beijing: through a triple lens of pragmatism, anti-Americanism and principle. Plus: a Kenyan eyes the east, by Peter Kimani
A firm Beijing-Islamabad alliance extends from politics to the track.  Plus: Tarek Osman on Egypt's longing, Patrice de Beer on France's two minds; and Kerry Brown on Olympic realism
The failure of judgment towards China among the French political class is all the more reason to reaffirm universal standards of human rights, says Patrice de Beer.
The rise of a great civilisation has complex echoes at the heart of the Arab world 
The pre-Olympic moment in China brings surprises as well as emotions
China's convulsive Olympic year connects its people to the rest of the world in new ways
The progressive ideals of the Olympic movement are shadowed by colonial attitudes
Beijing’s months of crisis may come to seem the product of a masterly public-relations campaign
China's leadership is forced to navigate a difficult domestic course in the path to the Olympics
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