http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e1b5323a1aca4f818820fd009ac8a9e4/chinese-news-agency-tells-readers-ignore-april-fools-day
China's Communist Party has a new target in its campaign against pernicious Western cultural influences: April Fool's Day.
"The so-called Western April Fool's Day does not conform to Chinese
cultural traditions or socialist core values," the party's leading
propaganda organ, Xinhua News Agency, said in a brief message on its
official microblog Friday.
"Hope people won't believe in rumors, start rumors or spread rumors," the message concluded.
Along with official newspapers including the flagship People's Daily
and state broadcaster CCTV, Xinhua has been key in the party's campaign
to rid China of Western cultural influences seen as challenging its
political orthodoxy.
Those include basic human rights and political concepts including
freedom of speech and separation of powers, with professors, soldiers
and rank-and-file party members all being told to keep their minds clean
of such thoughts. The fact that communism is itself an imported Western
political concept has not been openly discussed.
Chi Com leadership apparently has no sense of humor.
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