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5th September 2007
US may base atheletes in South Korea for Olympics
Bloomber news was reporting the United States is considering basing its athletes in South Korea to avoid Beijing’s pollution problems and flying them in for their events.
“The economic costs of China’s pollution are escalating,” Jing Ulrich, chairman of China equities at JPMorgan Chase & Co., said in the Bloomberg report. “To effectively tackle these issues, China must change its macroeconomic structure. Instead of relying on heavy industry, the government should promote the service sector and private consumption.”
It would seem unlikely that the United States would go through with such a move. All of the events are taking place in China, so when it comes to the actual competition the pollution is going to be impossible to escape.
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