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Hong Kong
Posted on 12/24/2018 5:56:49 PM PST by Zhang Fei
SHANGHAI — It took less than 24 hours for all the Christmas trees, lights and bells to disappear from a 27-story shopping and office complex in the Chinese city of Nanyang.
Even the giant teddy bear at the mall entrance wasn’t spared, said Ma Jun, who works at a tutoring company in the building.
“Everything is gone and cleaned,” she said.
Christmas continues to be a shopping festival across most of China, with huge trees adorning shopping malls in Shanghai and Beijing, but a growing emphasis on traditional culture by the ruling Communist Party and the systematic suppression of religion under President Xi Jinping are imperiling Santa Claus’s position.
At least four Chinese cities and one county have ordered restrictions on Christmas celebrations this year, according to official notices and interviews. Students, teachers and parents from 10 schools around China told the Associated Press that Christmas celebrations have been curtailed.
“The ongoing local reaction against Christmas is part of the wider sentiment since Xi took power,” said Zi Yang, a China expert at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
Xi is trying to broaden the appeal of the Communist Party by casting it as a crusader for Chinese tradition in a fast-changing world, he said. “Therefore, foreign cultural elements such as Christmas are placed on the chopping block.”
The seasonal humbug follows similar outbreaks of anti-Christmas rhetoric in 2014 and 2017. It appears not to be centrally organized, but rather a spreading resistance to foreign festivals by local authorities seeking to align themselves with the growing tide of cultural nationalism.
The squeeze on Christmas is an example of how efforts to “normalize” thinking bleed into the everyday lives of many Chinese. That push exploded into view this year through a crackdown on Christian churches
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I just finished living in Shanghai for two months. Certainly the grocery stores were full of Christmas-related paraphernalia. I saw some Christmas-related items inside other businesses. Of course all of it was of the Santa genre, there was nothing religious.
Just like any other Democrat-run city.
[I just finished living in Shanghai for two months. Certainly the grocery stores were full of Christmas-related paraphernalia. I saw some Christmas-related items inside other businesses. Of course all of it was of the Santa genre, there was nothing religious.]
Not that I saw, a lot of Santa, reindeer, snow, that kind of thing.
They’re terrified of the west and Christ
And THEY SHOYLD BE
we’re coming. And FAST !
Now they're coming.
Just saying...
America will run the SINGLE WORST trade deficit, with China, this year...
That ANY NATION has ever run, with any other.
Ever.
How do you say Burgermeister Meisterburger in Chinese?
[I am reading this on the morning of the 26 DEC. I am in China. And yes, the decorations and the lights are still on. And this is the morning.]
They are certainly going all out lately to induce Americans to hate Chinese and Russians. They don’t want us paying too much attention to the nefarious schemes of the Deep State, is my guess.
[Remember, boys and girls, the mainstream media stopped reporting “news” five decades ago. During the 1980’s they consolidated into a rabid propaganda machine for the progressive left. They broke away from them in the early 2000’s, and now operate independently.]
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