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COMMENTS: Beijing is Montreal
Be careful what you wish for, seemed to be the moral of Adrienne Mong's report from Beijing. NBC decided to remind us of the eyepopping architecture that had crowned that city's $40bn effort to host the Olympic Games last summer. Mong recalled Beijing "welcoming the world with a shiny new version of itself in anticipation of a boom in business and tourism." Welcome to Montreal! The Bird's Nest Stadium sits unused. The Water Cube may be revamped as an amusement park "in an effort to help revitalize the area." Office buildings stand empty and luxury hotel lobbies are silent. Construction cranes, the joke went, had been China's national bird. They are no longer busy, Mong wrapped up with a neat pun, "leaving behind an empty Nest."
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