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Foreigners Getting the Beijing Brush Off

Foreigners Getting the Beijing Brush Off

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Jul 31, 2012
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“What are they saying about us?” a diner is overheard wondering as he looks over at a group of Western tourists. “Foreigners never say anything good about China,” grumbles one companion.

Outside a lively barbecue restaurant in central Beijing, their conversation turns to a current propaganda campaign, invoking the so-called Beijing Spirit – “Patriotism, …

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