The U.S. State Department has announced they've signed a letter of intent to create a U.S. Pavilion at Shanghai's Expo 2010:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2008/apr/103770.htm
It'll be interesting to see what happens since, unlike most other countries, government money can't be used in the planning, construction, or hosting of a U.S. Pavilion. From the original request for proposals last year, I understand that about 100 million dollars will need to be found from sponsoring organizations in order to make this happen.
With only two years to go before the opening of Expo 2010, that's a lot of work to get done in a very short period of time.
The planning for other similarly sized pavilions (such as the United Kingdoms' pavilion) have been well under way for a while, so it's going to be a challenge to have the paint dry and doors open by 01 May 2008.
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This close to the opening of Expo 2000 the US already had viable plans for a pavilion yet no funding was ever made available so they were not realized. With the possible exception of that dreadful tall ship proposal, there will be no US pavilion at Expo 2010.
Thanks for writing this.
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