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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004."- ]' b6 x5 ~' f
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% B1 U" X0 M2 ["Without the Olympics' willingness to play, China could never have had this kind of opportunity to show the world the power of a national mind so sharply focused on an instrument of good., fear China a little less, maybe even like it a little?"! [. n/ Q; R8 i/ G9 z
----------------------------------------------- ; f0 n$ n" j5 Y/ r# \% z4 f9 Dthe meaning of the big party is inestimable.