Autocracy Quote by Shashi Tharoor

Autocratic countries have attempted to leverage hosting the Olympics into legitimizing their stances among the global community: Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, the Russian…

— Michael Waltz

The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time

— David Coleman

The Party leader at the time, Jiang Zemin, wanted to show the world China's new status. And in winning the bid, the leaders could…

— Liu Xiaobo

“the people will show that they have what Chinese military thinker Sun-tzu called “the supreme skill”; that is, to be able to win without…

— Gordon G. Chang

Seeing the Olympics come to China made me want to get more involved.

— Michael Chang

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the…

— Richard Gere

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course…

— Mark Steyn

If you didn't know better, you might have thought in 2003 and 2004 that U.S. government strategy was being set by people trying to…

— James Fallows

Western countries are thoroughly accustomed to being the centre of global attention, which they have come to regard as their natural birthright. Not so…

— Martin Jacques

The Beijing Olympics represent China's grand entrance onto the world stage and confirmation of its new superpower status.

— Ma Jian

The Beijing Olympics were an exercise in Chinese soft power. Americans have the 'Voice of America' and the Fulbright scholarships. But, the fact is,…

— Shashi Tharoor

Beijing intends to dominate the U.S. and the rest of the planet economically, militarily and technologically.

— John Ratcliffe