School child walking with Yao Ming during the Opening Ceremony holds flag upside down. An upside-down flag is the international nautical convention for “great distress.”
While an estimated 3 billion viewers who tuned in to the opening ceremony marvelled at the military-like drumming and synchronisation, the acts showed a country vastly different from the issues China has been confronted with in the lead-up to the Games.
Chinese authorities are anxious to publicize a list of about 80 foreign leaders who have accepted the invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
School child walking with Yao Ming during the Opening Ceremony holds flag upside down. An upside-down flag is the international nautical convention for “great distress.”
While an estimated 3 billion viewers who tuned in to the opening ceremony marvelled at the military-like drumming and synchronisation, the acts showed a country vastly different from the issues China has been confronted with in the lead-up to the Games.
Chinese authorities are anxious to publicize a list of about 80 foreign leaders who have accepted the invitation to attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics.