Beijing in the 2008 Olympics welcomed a world that hoped the event would nudge China to liberalize. This time, nobody thinks the Games will bring change.
An optimistic China sought to awe the world during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games—and it did. With the country’s economy booming, and its global ties largely friendly, the timing was almost perfect.
The Games opened to the beat of 2,008 drummers and the Olympic rings cast in fireworks over Beijing. Western countries, including the U.S., celebrated the competition as a chance to applaud China’s advances and nudge it toward the liberal world order, if not as a democratic country at least as a more capitalist one. China won accolades and the most gold medals.
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