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Personally, I thought the guards were a great touch, illustrating the hypocrisy of giving the Olympics to an oppressive regime that planned to use it not to promote world peace, or whatever the International Olympic Federation last claimed, but the dawn of the Chinese century, in which its authoritarian values will be exported around the world.
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I think that many people thought the Chinese government's bullying tactics would be confined within its borders. The sight of the PLA shoving and assaulting citizens in their own countries was not what was planned when the IOC "gave" China the Games. The IOC was shortsighted if it thought China would change for the better by being given the Games.