Edmonton Journal said: # H/ N5 S% A% X& A, }"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004." 1 Z! P- j! K" M" ]- A6 l/ g- D& y
" y( F* t( C; R2 c2 y0 y4 N"Without the Olympics' willingness to play, China could never have had this kind of opportunity to show the world the power of a national mind so sharply focused on an instrument of good., fear China a little less, maybe even like it a little?"* D! r/ F- k1 z- G# ~
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the meaning of the big party is inestimable.