Empty Seats at the Olympics, Vol. MMVIII

Atlantic correspondent James Fallows has posted a picture of the Argentina-Nigeria football (soccer) final. Keep in mind that this is the final of the Olympics in China, a country where (like most of the world) soccer is enormously popular. More thoughts and pics are on his blog. Personally, I wish a few more seats had been reserved for people and a few less for guanxi.

A telling statistic from that last link: "A recent report in the Hong Kong-based Sing Tao Daily said research from China's State Council, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the research office of the Central Party School showed that 90 percent of China's RMB billionaires (people with more than $128.2 million) are the children of senior officials."


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