The best meet at the Olympics. Like Poppagator, I was glad to see the end of the amateurism nonsense.

I suppose that I am a minority of one here, but I wish the Chinese the very best with the Games.
For millenia, China has been governed from the top down (imperial or communist, it's all the same), but with the rise of a middle class dependent on developing globalization (like the rest of us), change is taking place.
They have become a major player in the world. It may take a generation or so before the Uigars, Tibetans, etc. become a proper part of the development in China, and the, as a whole, conservative Chinese learn how to ignore or deal with cuckoo cults.

It was only a hundred-two hundred years ago that Britain et al. were showing how to boss wogs and blacks and how to plunder the Chinese, the U. S. built a fortune on slaves and later took over the Philippines and parts of Colombia, etc. etc. and it was manifest destiny that American Indians were herded into hardscrabble reservations and Mexico was torn apart. The U. S. is now trying to dominate the Middle East but is doing a poor job of it- perhaps a last gasp of their imperial days.

I believe that the Chinese will move much faster towards what we call democracy, the rights of man, or whatever, than we did.