"How can we compare to this in 2012?" – BBC

"For this century-old dream to come true, Huaxia, which has one-fifth of the world's population, has been looking forward to it for 7 years. —World Journal, USA

"The opening ceremony gathered political celebrities from all over the world, was the center of attention of hundreds of millions of spectators, and was a stage for China to show its pride and rejuvenation. —Le Figaro, France

"The opening ceremony of the Olympics is probably the most watched opening ceremony in history. It is estimated that more than 2 billion people will watch the live broadcast, and together with the viewers who watched the broadcast, a total of 4 billion people will enjoy the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games. —The Wall Street Journal

When many people talk about the Olympics, they say that it is a face project, and it seems that face is an outright derogatory term. Actually, it's not.

The 2008 Olympics were definitely the biggest watershed moment for the Celestial Empire, and before that, almost the vast majority of Westerners had the impression of comparing the Celestial Empire to the tattered appearance of the Third World countries of Central America.

Some people may disdain to say that it is the behavior of the nouveau riche, the buying and buying after the Celestial Empire, and all kinds of being complained about by Westerners as uncivilized and hateful.

I have to say that when the United States was born, it was also the most hated nouveau riche in all countries in the world. After the rise of the footbasin, basically the whole world is cursing and looking down on them, and the most fierce one who scolded the footbasin people as nouveau riche was the United States...

History needs the recording of milestone events, and national self-confidence needs the establishment of milestone events, of course, once is enough!

In any case, the Olympics will make the Celestial Empire a well-known and well-known hot topic in the coming time every four years. The results of this PR campaign have been clearly achieved.

To be honest, the impression that ordinary people have of foreign countries largely comes from various sports.

Without the Barcelona Olympics and the Barcelona football team, it is estimated that more than half of the population would not know that such a city is in Spain. If it weren't for a sports game, how many people would know about Croatia, Uruguay, or Jamaica?

Even if it weren't for the United States, if it weren't for the NBA's Spurs, how many people who hadn't been to know that there was a city called San Antonio?

In fact, whether it is the people of the Celestial Empire or foreigners, there are billions of foreigners in this world, and most of the people who eat melons neither know nor care about the area, population, glorious history, social welfare and GDP of a certain country.

But they watch the Olympics live or in the newspapers. They will look at the Bird's Nest and the Water Cube and the gold medal list, and feel that this must be a very awesome country, and they will have a chance to see it in the future.

At the breakfast table, Ivana read through the major media reports, still amazed by the grand opening ceremony she saw last night.

"After last night, the world has regained its understanding of the Celestial Empire, and the stage is really important to some extent. Andy sighed with a smile.

"yes, it's so rich... Ivana smiled and exclaimed.

Andy looked at his girlfriend and shook his head with some tears and laughter, it seems that this is the first feeling of all Westerners, after all, the Olympic Games for so many years, the grandeur of the opening ceremony does bring a great visual impact to foreigners.

"Eat quickly, after eating, we will go to the competition, and the gold medal in the women's 10m air rifle in the morning will be produced. ”

"Hey, your game won't be decided until the closing ceremony on the 24th, and some of you have to wait. Ivana said with some reluctance, she really hoped that her boyfriend would win the gold medal as soon as possible.

"Hehe, don't worry, in the 1/16 competition on the afternoon of the 13th, you can see my game!" Andy smiled and raised his left arm to make a toning movement, and he was still very confident of winning the gold medal.

"I'm looking forward to it, seriously, the whole of America should be looking forward to your competition!" Ivana looked at Andy with admiration in her eyes, and said with some pride, you must know that the American media has long made its own gold medal list, and Andy's 91kg gold medal was included in the gold medal list early in the morning, and it also caused ridicule from many national media.

It's just that the Americans who have watched Andy's game know too well that Andy's strength is really too much, and he is completely capable of dominating the professional boxing world, but everyone knows that this Olympics is probably the last time Andy Smith, a super-rich man, stands in the competitive ring, and the last few games, watch one less game!

When Andy took Ivana to the Beijing shooting range, the competition had already begun, and the qualifying round for the women's 10m air rifle would be held at around 10:30 a.m.

quickly found a seat, after all, the location of the Smith family is still very high, it is easy to find, but for the appearance of him and Ivana, many people at the scene recognized him, after all, he is no stranger to sports fans in China, Da Yao's awesome boss, at the same time, his handsome face and young and golden are still very popular with girl fans.

The shooting competition requires the scene to be quiet, and Andy's appearance only caused a small sao movement, but many people saw Ivana next to Andy, and they all showed admiring expressions, Nima, this Yanma is too big, it must take two hands...

Sure enough, behind each goddess there is a 。。。。。。 The man!

The Smith family sat together, it was also a big phalanx, Andy and Ivana sat down and said hello, Andy found that each member of the family had two national flags in their hands, watching his grandfather and cheap father roll up the flag of the Celestial Empire in their hands with some embarrassment, but Mom and grandparents didn't care at all and waved it from time to time.

Just as Andy wanted to ask what was going on, someone from the Celestial Empire behind him handed him a Celestial Empire flag very, very friendly, and Ivana also received it.

Old Smith looked at Andy, who was a little confused, and said softly: "They are so enthusiastic, but this really embarrasses me, I don't want to see a photo of me waving the flag of the Celestial Empire published in American newspapers... ”

Andy also showed a wry smile, he didn't care, but grandpa and cheap dad have different identities, which is really an embarrassing thing.

Looking sideways at my mother and grandparents who were constantly gently shaking the national flags of the two countries in my hands, I couldn't help but shake my head and laugh. However, he knew that it was absolutely inevitable that the photos of their family would be published by the American media.

No, there were already cameras at the scene that deliberately shot at his position for a few seconds, after all, he is a world-class superstar, a rich man, and there is a ghost if he is not noticed.

"By the way, Paulson approached me this morning and told me that the speculation you told him last night had come true, that some Russian officials had a top-level meeting with the Celestial Empire, and proposed that the two countries jointly sell a large number of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bonds, and force the U.S. government to use its emergency powers to support these two companies. Fortunately, Huaxia has rejected this ill-intentioned plan, but this news still makes him sleepless, and he wants to talk to you and your think tank. ”

Old Smith turned his head and whispered to Andy in French, as soon as Andy heard his grandfather speak French, he naturally reacted quickly, this is for secrecy, this is the knee-jerk reaction of their old foxes.

"Does the President know?" said Andy frowned, looking at his grandfather and whispering.

He has not been told, and Paulson plans to tell him when he returns to the United States. ”

Andy nodded silently, but soon sneered and said: "Hehe, this is really surprising to me, but it is also expected, the overall situation of the high-level of the Celestial Empire is indeed superior, and the group of people in Russia is a group of people who are full of Cold War thinking, and what they think of is always how to attack the United States."

And what the Celestial Empire is thinking about is how to protect its own interests, and at this time, if it uses the sale of bonds to deal a fatal blow to the two houses, it will not only hurt the two companies, but the credit of the United States.

The stock of the two houses can fall for nothing, but the bond is guaranteed by American credit, and its value can be guaranteed as long as the United States does not collapse. But if it collapses because of the sell-off shock, as the largest creditor of the United States, the Celestial Empire will suffer the greatest losses, which they absolutely do not want to see. ”