The Economist sobre las Olimpiadas chinas

Según el semanario británico The Economist, el auge de China es motivo de celebración a pesar de las Olimpiadas:

This is [el auge de China] indeed a cause for great celebration. But the Olympics have had little to do with it. On balance, the award of the games has done more harm than good to the opening up of China. The big forces driving that opening are independent of the games (see article). One is the speed with which China globalised in the 1980s and 1990s and then accelerated to a breakneck pace after accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001. The other is the spread of the internet and mobile telephony that have transformed society. The Olympics, by contrast, have seen the Communist Party reassert an authoritarian grip over Beijing. It has used the pretext of an alleged terrorist threat to impose a restrictive security cordon on the city and curtail visas even for harmless businessmen.

Nota: parece que mi conexión vuelve a estar up and running, así que seguiré posteando a buen ritmo. Debates siguen abiertos aquí y aquí. No aptos para alérgicos a las parrafadas.