Olympics

Enter The Dragon (In Two Years)

Chinese officials say preparations are going well for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing and they are confident that the XXIX Olympiad will be a rousing success. Hundreds, if not thousands, of unsightly homes and businesses have been bulldozed to make way for the construction of new sports venues, they told reporters, while crackdowns on dissident journalists and other opponents of the State are way up over this time last year. “The conditions for Beijing holding a successful Olympics are becoming more and more mature,” Wang Wei, secretary general of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games, said at a press conference. The biggest challenge facing the organizers seems to be improving the manners of Beijing’s citizenry. To get people to stop spitting on the sidewalks, the government is planning to launch a campaign to improve etiquette. Did someone say re-education camps?

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