Beijing is taking great pride in being the first city to host both the summer and winter Olympics. I first visited the great city just before the 2008 Olympiad and have just returned from a visit during the current winter event. The atmosphere could hardly be more different, which attests to both China’s development and to its conscious decoupling from the multilateral foreign policy followed by every leader from Deng Xiaoping to Hu Jintao.
Shaping news: terrorism spreads in the Sahel and China plays peace-broker in the Middle East
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