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Beijing is boiling. A year before China's capital hosts the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, its economy is swelling at an annual rate of 12%. Skyscrapers and vast shopping malls are springing up alongside the 28 million new trees that have been planted in an attempt to counteract the 3...
Taiwan views America's vocal opposition as more evidence of the influence that China wields. "Beijing now realizes the shortest route to Taipei is through Washington," says Loh I-cheng, a retired Taiwanese diplomat. "They are telling the U.S., 'It was you who spoiled this child. You should spank him...
For many ordinary Chinese, the Games mark the ability of their nation to shrug off two centuries of humiliation by foreigners. "In the 19th century, China used to be called the sick man of Asia," says Li Weiling, 51, a checkout clerk at a Beijing supermarket. "The Olympics will totally...
It is in Beijing, of course, that the impact of the Games is felt most intensely. Zhong Hongwu of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences calculates that total Olympics-related expenditures by Beijing will hit $38 billion, some four times as much as was spent preparing Athens for the 2004...
Physically, the city has undergone a breathtaking destruction and reconstruction. "I went away for three months, and when I came back, I couldn't even recognize a neighborhood near my home. I hardly knew it was my city," says film director Xu Jinglei, 33, born and bred in Beijing. Astonishing...