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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." $ h: M! @8 s F) u5 A * b0 `/ i( d9 u& R+ c2 h2 C0 G' k! {$ W
"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?" % ]; R+ b2 B* w----------------------------------------------- $ L8 g2 |/ a: M' nthe meaning of the big party is inestimable.