Now that the Olympics are over, the world will see China’s true colors.
How many of the changes and improvements they have made are just for show?
Will any of the progress stick?
Both of these questions and more will be answered in the next few years.
China with the olympics had a major chance–the chance of a lifetime, really–to show the world what it can do. And show it did, though not without some complications and hitches.
Now that the Olympics are over, the dust will settle, the Bird’s Nest stadium will become a national sports arena, and presumably everyone will be allowed to drive every day. Gone are the restrictions to make the environment more healthful for the athletes that were engaged in grueling, split-second competition.
But the citizens never left. What about the people in the People’s Republic of China? What about their lungs? What about their performance? What about their health? What about their life?
Hopefully China will see this and make some of the changes stick.
It seems in part that the giant country was so busy trying to impress the world that it neglected some of its own constitutents.
What a hollow victory that will be for them.
