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In 2007 I moved into a quiet hutong, a traditional narrow lane lined with courtyard houses, in eastern Beijing. Since April, the city's Olympic buzz has reached deafening proportions. In a period of months, my district, laid out 700 years ago during the Ming dynasty, saw lanes repaved, streetlights...
It is with that sense of purpose that Beijing has spent the past seven years transforming itself. The city added roughly 85 miles (about 140 km) of subway and rail lines and a huge airport terminal. Forty million pots of flowers and 22 million trees were planted. As many as...
Other problems aren't as easily covered up. Beijing spent more than $17 billion to improve its environment, but days before the Games, the air is still a toxic haze. Even with new laws taking more than half the city's cars off the road, the addition of Olympic VIP...
In the weeks preceding the Games, authorities have closed clubs and bars, blocked concerts and other public gatherings and put an increasing number of armed police on the streets. Some of my neighbors have even been recruited as volunteer public-security monitors. They sport red-and-white polo shirts bearing...
During his first year in office, Paulson's most high-profile relationship-building efforts were with the Chinese government, in a series of top-level meetings in Beijing and Washington. These weren't a flop - Paulson proudly points to the failure of anti-China trade legislation in Congress and the...