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"The ceremony preceded 16days of competition, for which China has spent $70 billion - six times the record of Athens in 2004." 2 x8 U* P! W# @0 D: h, X" z! t8 J
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"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?": Y* m8 \0 J/ G2 q# U. z
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the meaning of the big party is inestimable.