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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 3227423, member: 250"] There isn't any one reason of course. For China it was a matter of state interest in successfully projecting the policies of authoritarianism into the international sports arena, the most dramatic push being for Olympic gold. The last decade has seen a shift in China toward encouraging private market forces. Europe is a mixed bag, but Eastern Europe was aclimated to statism for generations and now Western Europe is more socialist than anything else, with the EU regulating the number of plies in you toilet paper and the amount of water in your flush. [/QUOTE]