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There's one bit of diary news - buried in the last line of a White House press release - that matters a huge amount to China's government: "The President and Mrs Bush will attend the opening ceremonies of the summer Olympic Games on August 8." I'll put this in a non-bureaucratic way: the world's most powerful man will attend the most important part of the most important event that Communist China has ever held. That's a big symbolic victory for China. Since the protests in Tibet in March, human rights campaigners have called on world leaders to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games. So far, the leaders of Germany and Canada have decided to stay away. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided to go to the closing ceremony instead. France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested that he'll make his decision... [read full story]
