China’s People’s Daily newspaper topped off its coverage of theLondon Olympics on Monday pronouncing that the Communist Party’s leadership had sent congratulations to the country’s Olympic team.
Then the Communist Party mouthpiece suggested that the Chinese shouldn’t compete with United States because Westerners have bigger chests and heads.
The US team bagged 104 medals compared to China’s 88. The US took 46 golds compared with China's 38.
Beijing’s Global Times newspaper took a dare in casting China’s post-game dilemma:
“The country could pretend to be stupid and sell itself short, but if we think we’re too cool, that might be worse,” the popular Beijing commuter paper said. “The Olympics is a real mirror, not a fake one, on one aspect of the world.”
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