What fears do the Chinese have about hosting the Olympic Games?
A. They are also very anxious about the potential downsides of something going wrong. What they seem to be worried about most is a terrorist incident, and every government throughout the world is worried about that, so its normal they would have measures in place to prevent a terrorist incident. But I think theyre not sure who might produce this terrorist incidentThe security mentality of the Chinese regime would be to think anyone could engage in such an incident. They would question what this group would do or what would that movement do. Chinese thinking is that almost anyone would engage in terrorism. Another feature of the thinking by the Chinese regime is that they are very security-minded and risk averse. The [security] continuum goes over to unfurling a flag, some sort of peaceful expression which in the U.S. or Europe is a protected form of free speech. But the Chinese thinking is very risk averse. They want to prevent anything that doesnt look right from happening. Q. As part
