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speak easy

(9,244 posts) Sat Dec 3, 2022, 08:01 PM Dec 2022

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Beijing - Photo looks like a scene from Orwell

A woman wearing a face mask rides a bicycle in Beijing under a large television screen showing President Xi Jinping. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/03/china-easing-covid-curbs-does-not-solve-xi-jinping-dilemma

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Beijing - Photo looks like a scene from Orwell (Original Post) speak easy Dec 2022 OP

You want to go full 1984 watch this reel about N Korea EX500rider Dec 2022 #1

Anyone notice China is getting closer to looking like N Korea than Vietnam? Somethings wrong there uponit7771 Dec 2022 #2

The cult of personality. speak easy Dec 2022 #3

EX500rider

(10,842 posts)

1. You want to go full 1984 watch this reel about N Korea

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Sat Dec 3, 2022, 08:22 PM

Dec 2022

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)

2. Anyone notice China is getting closer to looking like N Korea than Vietnam? Somethings wrong there

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Sat Dec 3, 2022, 09:46 PM

Dec 2022

speak easy

(9,244 posts)

3. The cult of personality.

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #2)

Sun Dec 4, 2022, 04:22 AM

Dec 2022

A portrait of Mao still looks over Tiananmen Square.

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