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Commentary: The US is not responsible for China’s rise​

The Middle Kingdom's reemergence as a world power is an inevitability, not an American blunder, argues the Financial Times' Janan Ganesh.

The West might have postponed its arrival at the top table, at some cost.
Preventing it outright was never in its power.

Impotence is more painful to own up to than guilt.
The rest of the democratic world finds it no easier than America. “How the west invited China to eats its lunch”, has the luridness and fake-Everyman patter of a Fox News headline. It is in fact a BBC one, from last week.

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16 Dec 2021
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Temstar said:
They actually still use the same music, just change the words around for today's National Anthem. However I'm pretty sure IOC would ban it, for Tokyo this year the Russians suggested they sing Katyusha but that too was shot down. I wonder if they would allow Farewell of Slavianka.
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Why? Germanys national anthem remains similar to the one from the Weimar Republic to this very day. The only obvious change was the discarding of the Horst Wessel bit introduced in the Nazi era.
 
PiSigma

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Temstar said:
They actually still use the same music, just change the words around for today's National Anthem. However I'm pretty sure IOC would ban it, for Tokyo this year the Russians suggested they sing Katyusha but that too was shot down. I wonder if they would allow Farewell of Slavianka.
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No . They would sing Red Army is the Strongest
 
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