From the imperial and overwhelming airs of Beijing 2008 to the discreet, brief and compact ceremony of Beijing 2022. From the powerful and disturbing drums to a choir of angelic children. China understood that the world was waiting for the Games, but that the world is not for games. The 14 years that passed between those Summer Games and the Winter Games inaugurated this Friday made it clear that the world’s most populous country, the second largest economy on the planet, no longer needs to demonstrate its power. It was enough with what it did in 2008, at overwhelming and…