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CCTV FOLLIES 4.23 East best read Red

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Apr 24, 2023
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What’s black and white and red all over?

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Books by Xi Jinping, of course.

The top story in the April 23 Xinwen Lianbo news program is Xi Jinping’s banal injunction to the people of China: Read more books!

(for an essay on the topic, see here)

What better way to teach young people to love books than to force them to spend days on end perfecting a North Korean style mass pageant using human beings as pixels?This one spells out the words: “Book Fragrant China”

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