Expo 2010 Shanghai is scheduled to begin...

This is not just because the exhibition gives China an opportunity to show everyone how rich and modern it is, which China has already demonstrated at the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008. The Games cost China billions of dollars, and Beijing still does not know what to do with two of the biggest Olympic facilities - the Bird"s Nest stadium and the Water Cube aquatic center. Although the effect was worth the cost, it makes no sense to do it all over again in Shanghai.

Nevertheless, Chinese leaders want to restore the importance of the Universal Expositions, which have been eclipsed by other events in the last few decades. They also want to revive the concept of the Universal Expositions, which have won fame not so much for the scale of the deals concluded at them but for their role as the intellectual engines of globalism.

At the end of Alexander Ostrovsky"s play Without a Dowry, the brokenhearted heroine is invited to accompany a wealthy man to an exhibition in Paris,

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