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...game, Yao, China's flag bearer at the Olympic opening ceremony, was uncharacteristically despondent about the national squad: "I feel so disappointed. I lost all my hopes for this team." He even publicly considered withdrawing from the national team, sending China's sports propagandists into a tizzy. The Chinese state-run media reported one basketball official accusing Yao of "splitting" the team and blamed the U.S. and the NBA for corrupting the Chinese giant. Two days later, the two-time NBA all-star's decisive actions proved louder than his dissenting words when he led China to victory against...
...hundreds of millions of Chinese tuning in to the Games, state broadcasters admitted that viewers were even being siphoned away from the endless documentaries celebrating the 100th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth. China dedicated three national channels to the Olympics, and the country's state media dispatched 160 reporters to Athens. Cui Ying of the Shanghai Morning Post, a daily with a circulation of 600,000, estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still, hefty advertising has offset such costs; China's state-run CCTV, for instance, says it is raking in $60 million...
...motive may have come last month, when Putin's aide-de-camp and deputy chief of staff, Igor Sechin, was named chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned oil company, Rosneft. Sechin, 43, has no known experience in the oil business. Rosneft would not comment on the appointment. But the company is poised to snap up some or all of the pieces of Yukos at the state-run sale expected to follow Yukos' demise. "The appointment of Putin's closest and most secretive lieutenant as head of Rosneft is a sign that Putin...
...almost 1,400 years later, Chinese scholars are attempting a subtler land grab, claiming that the ancient kingdom of Koguryo was a part of China?a "regional government founded by an ethnic group," as Beijing's state-run Northeast Asia Project put it in June. The argument isn't just academic...
...have ended, but the echoes of that struggle linger in China's athletic-training program. Across the nation, nearly 400,000 young hopefuls in 3,000 sports schools toil to bring glory to their motherland. Most are plucked from elementary school and sent to train at these state-run sports academies before the age of nine?regardless of their interest in athletics. Given such a concerted culling of China's 300 million youngsters, it's perhaps no surprise that in less than two decades of Olympic participation, China?which stayed away from the Games in previous decades in protest...