Any budgetary adjustment is aimed at organizing a better and more frugal Olympics. The Chinese government's principle is, spend less ... accomplish more.

Chen pointed to the cub. "There's your brute." Then he pointed to the pups. "And there's your domestication. For the most part, Westerners are descendants of barbarian, nomadic tribes such as the Teutons and the Anglo-Saxons. They burst out of the primeval forest like wild animals after a couple of thousand years of Greek and Roman civilization, and sacked ancient Rome. They eat steak, cheese, and butter with knives and forks, which is how they've retained more primitive wildness than the traditional farming races. Over the past hundred years, domesticated China has been bullied by the brutish West. It's not surprising that for thousands of years the Chinese colossus has been spectacularly pummeled by tiny nomadic peoples.

Corruptions, which emerged in personnel adjustment, may shake and undermine the CPC's ruling foundation and capacity.

firmly opposed to any attempt to split Chinese territory and sovereignty.

Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

The Chinese, as befits a Communist autocracy, approached the task of dominating the Olympics with top-down military discipline.