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Under the skin of Beijing

Despite rank hypocrisy, and a singularly irate swan, China has risen above and beyond negativity to create the Olympic dream it desperately craves By Alan Campbell

IT is impossible for the Westerner newly arrived in Beijing to know what emotions lie behind the smiling faces. But if the Chinese are an oppressed people, they certainly know how to hide it.