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Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Two-Way
China's New Urban Legend That Turned Out Not To Be
April 18, 2013 For several hours today, a story went viral on the Chinese Internet that the new Communist equivalent of the emperor, President Xi Jinping, had pulled an old trick from an imperial playbook and traveled incognito among ordinary citizens. The legend of The President Who Took a Taxi was quickly shut down.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
The Two-Way
OK, North Korea's Leader Isn't 'Sexiest Man Alive,' Chinese Media Concede
November 28, 2012 China's Web surfers have had much fun at the expense of People's Daily Online after it accepted as fact that The Onion thinks Kim Jong Un is 2012's biggest hunk. Editors at the Communist Party's mouthpiece now realize they were punk'd.