The Olympic Games Return to China, in a Changed World
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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Will the I O C Report That?
I find it strange that the united states in the eighties refused to come to moscow, and the pretext and the reason for that policy was afghanistan. At this moment, the chinese government is doing what it's doing with the weakers, which is an on and yet, our protest is much milder. What is the rational for that? I mean, i think that there is a sense that you don't want to punish them for something that china is doing. And so they've taken this kind of much milder route. There is less of a focus, a coherent focus, on international affairs than there once was. The cold war was something that americans
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