The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, is planning to go cap-in-hand to the Chinese government after the credit crunch and falling house prices left a £250m hole in funding for the 2012 Olympics. In return, he plans to offer Beijing a share in a university that could one day be based in the athletes’ village and media centre and run jointly by institutions in Beijing and London. Times UK
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Almost sounds like a bad joke....
Signs of the times. See also, Bruce Sterling's flickr set juxtaposing US Financial Meltdown with Chinese Taikanout Takeoff:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucesterling/2889622710/
Thanks for that link, Fred.
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