China

So, China... What, pray tell, was the deciding factor for the Olympics Committee to make the decision to hold the Olympics in China? Perhaps the deleterious air quality? Perhaps the current violent and oppressive stance on Taiwanese Independence? Perhaps the fact that just about the entire western third of China wants to be an independant state and has a several century claim to Independence? Perhaps the fact that entire villages are dying from cancer due entirely, and indubitably, to water pollution... please can someone tell me why the Olympics are being held there?