China

Chinese Nationalists Furious Beijing Backed Down Over Celebrating Mao at the Olympics

‘WEAK BONES’

A fight over Chairman Mao at the Olympics has left President Xi’s officials in the unusual position of being attacked as weak and spineless by young nationalists back home.

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