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China: Shake the Country

Written byOiwan Lam
Posted 17 May 2011 6:55 GMT

Olivia from China Hush explains how the Forbidden City Palace Museum first lost their exhibited art pieces and then their face because of wrong spelling in their thank-you banner to the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. To defend one's country has turned into to shake one's country as a result of the use of wrong word.

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