A world expo, let’s be frank, is an exercise in showing off.
For the host city, it is a chance to show that it has the wherewithal and organisational skills to pull off such a major undertaking.
And for the countries taking part, nearly 200 in Shanghai’s case, it is a chance to portray themselves as beautiful, progressive and welcoming. Each in its own way, of course, in pavilions which are ever-changing but somehow always the same.
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