Three Consecutive Olympiads of Peace in Asia: A Deus Ex Machina for China-Japan-Korea Relations

In April 2016 the ceremony for the initiation of the Olympic Flame’s world marathon took place in Ancient Olympia Greece opening the final countdown for Rio Olympics. The authors from Tsinghua University, Seoul National University, the University of Tokyo and Harvard University, argue that the three consecutive Olympiads in Asia (2018, 2020, 2022) offer an unprecedented “Deus Ex Machina” to China, Japan and South Korea to engage in a concerted massive public diplomacy campaign that will tame rising nationalism and replace national bravado with athletic excellence and the Olympic Ideal.

Wang Xiaochao, Zhang Lihua, Noburu Notomi, Cho Dong Sung, Patrick Mendis, Zhao Kejin, Vasilis Trigkas via CHINA US Focus http://ift.tt/25v3DyQ