Totalitarian regimes – the Nazis, the Soviets in 1980, and now the Chinese – desire to host the Olympics as a way to signal to the world their superiority. China believes that it has found its own model to develop and modernize, and its rulers regard the Games in the same way as the Nazis and Leonid Brezhnev did, as a means of “selling” their model to a global audience.
极权主义政权，比如纳粹、八十年代的苏联和现在的中国，都渴望把举办奥运会作为向世界标榜它们的优越性的途径。中国相信它已经找到了它自己发展和现代化的模式，而它的统治者像纳粹和勃列日涅夫一样，也把奥运会当成将他们的模式“兜售”给全球观众的途径。