10 years ago today, Beijing kicked off the Olympics. It was a smoggy day. I just moved back to the city after six years in the US, Beijing felt new and strange with many new roads, new buildings and new-found confidence. I didn’t know what to expect.
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In the next 10 years, we experienced the financial crisis, China’s rise as a global power, the great expectations of the Weibo Spring, the terror of crackdown on dissent in Xi’s early term and now a slowing economy and a trade war with the US. What will we say 10 years from now?
7:26 AM - 8 Aug 2018
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