The Winter Olympic Games will be held from February 4-20 in a ‘green, safe and simple’ way, and for that reason will prove ‘splendid and successful’.
Don’t take it from me. Take it from someone who knows: Xi Jinping, the paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China, who handily announced this during a recent visit to workers at the main Games sites in Beijing.
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Rowan Callick, twice a China correspondent for the Australian including during the Beijing Olympics, is an Industry Fellow at Griffith University’s Asia Institute.
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