Even the spectacular fireworks display at...
Expo; the horrible and eloquent picture certainly accounts for part of the general impression. Just imagine, China used to be a country of bicycles.Apart from its honorable role as the event"s host and organizer, China often finds itself a potential buyer courted by foreign suppliers of green technologies. Greece, which is going through a severe economic downturn, probably the worst in its modern history, has openly admitted it was one of the reasons the country was so keen to participate in the Shanghai Expo.
In any case, China has not got its dream of seeing the whole world in Shanghai fulfilled. Three nations dropped out of the Expo: Kuwait, Bhutan and poverty-stricken Burkina Faso. The latter is briefly mentioned in the united Africa pavilion, though.
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev)
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