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DonCoquixote

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1. qs much as the Chinese have done miracles

Reply to nitpicker (Original post)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 06:30 AM

Jan 2018

The fact is they will have a hard time being to able to encourage invention, not that they donot have the talent, but that said talent knows that are always one capricious whim away from being punished. The world loved the "birds nest" arena done by ai weiwei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_National_Stadium

nit lo and behold, ai weiwei wound up gettign arrested, despite his work being one of the few things about the Olympics NOT considered a disaster.

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