It is said that in history it was named Al Qahira ( The Conqueror ) because the vast majority of the invading armies fell on the 6th October Bridge, on Al Batal Ahmed street to be precise.

As the French analyst Dominique Moisi recently put it, whereas China intends to seduce and impress the world by the number of its Olympic medals, Russia wants to impress the world by demonstrating its military superiority China s soft power versus Russia s hard power.