A profound impact is created in every Citizen who is aware of modern history the presence of soldiers/ officers who marched on different occasions in the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games with the goose step: a manner of step which, like the swastika is associated regardless of origin with the most racist, totalitarian and violently imperialistic political and ideological schema: Nazism.
For sure it is not only the Chinese army which since the Second World War has been documented to use this step without being nazist, but in a ceremony where everything is communicated with symbols and not with social or political analyses, it is not important the origin but the concept that an image represents. The presence of large masses in the arena of the stadium together with goose-marching soldiers makes clear references to the Nazist celebrations/ ceremonies before the outbreaks of the Second World War.
In a ceremony which is dictated, designed and controlled by international elements and not by the organizing countries, to the point where they can add or subtract whatever they consider indecent or dangerous, the only thing we can certain say is that the above image which we described was wanted by all without exception the agents who have a saying in the Olympic Committes and who always represent specific countries and their goals/ promotional messages.
In the particular case, the image of the Olympic Flag being held by soldiers, not athletes during its raising was a revival of the Olympic Games of Berlin in 1936 and the matching honorary guard for it. This display is not blamed to China but to the International agents which hold the particular athletic event.