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China's Olympic change

Kerry Brown
The Beijing Olympics reveal an unexpected face of China where power and vulnerability mingle

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China's Olympics: a view from Brazil

Arthur Ituassu
How Brasilia sees Beijing: through a triple lens of pragmatism, anti-Americanism and principle. Plus: a Kenyan eyes the east, by Peter Kimani

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China goes for gold

Irfan Husain
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

China and the Olympics: a view from France

Patrice de Beer
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.

China's Olympics: a view from Egypt

Tarek Osman
The rise of a great civilisation has complex echoes at the heart of the Arab world 

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The Olympics countdown: Beijing to Shanghai

Kerry Brown
The pre-Olympic moment in China brings surprises as well as emotions

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China and a globalisation of sentiment

Kerry Brown
China's convulsive Olympic year connects its people to the rest of the world in new ways

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The Olympics’ “civilising” legacy: St Louis to Beijing

Susan Brownell
The progressive ideals of the Olympic movement are shadowed by colonial attitudes

China’s Olympics: after the tumult

Kerry Brown
Beijing’s months of crisis may come to seem the product of a masterly public-relations campaign

Beijing’s political tightrope-walk

Kerry Brown
China's leadership is forced to navigate a difficult domestic course in the path to the Olympics

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