Communist CNN Reporter Detained In China For Wearing Mao Zedong

A CNN correspondent said Monday she was detained byChinese security guards in Shanghai for two hours for displaying a T-shirt on camera depicting US President Barack Obama as Mao Zedong.

Emily Chang, a Beijing-based correspondent for the US television network, said in a blog post on CNN.com that she hunted down the shirt after hearing they had been banned amid fears they "may offend the American president."

The shirt shows Obama, who is making his first visit to China as president, in a Red Army uniform staring into the distance in a pose made famous by the former Chinese leader. Etc.....

10 Conditions 4 Transition To Communism
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all right of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labour. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production.

Is she kidding?

He is probably extremely flattered!

...a T-shirt on camera depicting US President Barack Obama as Mao Zedong.

Kewl...where do I get one?

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I think it’s neither really, but it oculd be that the T-shirt might imply that Zero is as equal to Mao. However, this owuld be seen as an insult to Mao, not a compliment to Zero that he (Zero) and Mao share the same goals and philosophy.

Mao was never the fool Zero is. Someone who makes it through the revolution, Long March, internal chaos, then to unify the country and then proceed to dismantle 5000 years of culture, is not someone to be looked upon lightly. The biggest mistake that all our leaders, from Nixon to now and then Stalin, is that they viewed Mao as somewhat of a noble savage personality. That Mao and the Communist founders were some sort of confused peasants who needed (and still need) enlightened Westerners to guide them. I remember seeing a documentary (or reading a book, I’m not sure) that described how Stalin tried to treat Mao as an errand boy who would administer China according to the interests of the Soviets.

Which never happened. The Chinese view Mao as a great leader and in a lot of respects he was. He unified the country and for better or worse, changed things remarkably. To equate Zero with Mao is like equating Mother Teresa to Madonna. It requires the tearing down of Mao since Zero could never at any point be the leader Mao was.

As long as our leaders look upon the CHinese as benign, unenlightened peasants, then we are going ot continue to fail to properly deal with them and hold our own.

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