“The hosting of these Games has boosted the Chinese people's self-esteem, enhanced national cohesion, and reinforced the country's faith in pursuing peaceful development,” declared an editorial issued by the government's Xinhua news agency two days before the closing ceremony.
The Olympics had also boosted Beijing's infrastructure, improved environmental consciousness and scientific innovation, increased public participation in social affairs and shown the world that China was a friendly and harmonious country that “respects all international rules”, Xinhua said.
Yet for all such triumphalism, in many ways the true extent of the Olympics' legacy on its 2008 host remains more ambiguous.
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