Geopolitics
Governance/Geopolitics Expert feels hosting successful Olympic Games in 2022 could validate China's authoritarian system
Just Earth News | @justearthnews | 25 Feb 2021, 09:49 am Print
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Edinburg: A geo-politics expert has said he feels hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics could help China revamp their image from a world factory to a world power.
Lee Jung-woo, an expert on sports diplomacy and international relations at the University of Edinburgh, told CNN the 2008 Games 'enabled China to demonstrate its emerging economy status'.
"The 2022 Winter Olympics could help them to revamp their image from a world factory to a world power,"the expert told the American news channel.
China had hosted the Olympics in 2008.
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