Leave the judgment to the olympic committee. 'Propaganda' has a role to play but the effects differ:

1)Hard data

2)Visual impact

3)The power of the propagandist and the recipients of both sides.

Successful Yank propanganda coup: eg Tiananmen 1989 due to (2)&(3)

Yankee PR disaster: Georgr Flyod,'Jan 6 2021' due to (2), afganistan pull out due to (1)

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Olympic is minor stuff

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If the BRs claim gleaming chinese cities are Potemkin villages, one can quote the air-cond market data I onced linked...

If one wants to remind how f*ked up they're: http://zzwave.com/plaboard/posts/3965569.shtml