ARTICLE: China Changes Course, Advocating Tempered Response to Its Critics, By Jill Drew, Washington Post, April 23, 2008; Page A14
Good example of the limits of nationalism for the Chinese Communist Party: a bit is okay, but too much and pretty soon you're threatening the economic connectivity that justifies their rule.
The Olympics were going to be a major readjustment of their nationalism one way or the other. I see it working out quite nicely, as in, the Chinese grow up a lot in this process and the immature chauvinism gets tempered with something more weighty.
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