Huang points out that in hosting the Olympics and Expo 2010 to announce its strength and wealth, China is behaving similarly to Japan several decades ago. Japan hosted the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and Expo '70 in Osaka. Beijing and Shanghai are the political and economic centers of China, much like Tokyo and Osaka were for Japan back then.
黃振家分析，中國憑藉「申奧」、「申博」向全球誇示富強，其實與日本接連於 1964 年舉辦東京奧運、1970 年舉辦大阪萬國博覽會的發展軌跡極為相似，北京及上海各為中國的政治與經濟重鎮，地位即等同於當年的東京和大阪。