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Skin in the Games: Beijing’s nervy Olympics

The Intelligence from The Economist

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Do You Think the Olympics Will Bring in a Political Protest?

The greatest risk, i think, for shitin pang would be to achieve a zero covet situation in china. There have been previous, famously, black power subsalutes at olympics years and years ago. It's very hard to know whether an individual athlete may choose to say something about what's happening in shinjang or in tibet. China is a pretty intimidating place. If you're planning a political protest, it has to be said,. I was talking to some diplomats here about whether they thought their countries would have athletes who had stage political protests. We've seen senior chinese public security officials say that anyone who breaks chinese law will be subject to

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