Post-Olympic Hangover: New Backdrop for Sino-Korean Relations
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008By Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder is a Senior Associate at The Asia Foundation and can be reached at ssnyder@asiafound-dc.org. A more complete version of this article was originally published by CSIS.
The XXIX Beijing Olympiad, an event that had preoccupied Chinese leaders for almost a decade as they sought to utilize the games to project to domestic and international audiences China’s accomplishments on an international stage, has framed many issues in Sino-Korean relations, especially given the many resonances between the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and the Beijing Olympics two decades later. But now that the Olympics are over, Chinese leaders may adopt a different frame for viewing the world and the Korean peninsula, the details of which have begun to emerge in the “post-Olympics era.”
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