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Expectations Of And From China

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

ImageThief seems to have recovered fully from a recent bout of spousal childbirth and has been churning out great post after great post of late, rising today to the level of profundity in analyzing the gulf of expectations surrounding the upcoming Olympics:

This extremely gloomy scenario made me think a little about the vast gulf between foreign and Chinese expectations for what the Beijing Olympics would accomplish. The Chinese expected the Olympics to change foreign perceptions of China for the better. Foreigners expected the Olympics to change China for the better. In fact, these are both attainable goals, but they are interdependent. They will either both be right, or both be wrong. It doesn't work any other way. The unfortunate thing is that if both are wrong, especially along the lines sketched out by Ozanian, the Olympics will have achieved the opposite of what each party had hoped for. That would be a tragedy, and I hope for a better outcome.

The full post can be found here.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on March 20, 2008 (boomark / email).