On Monday afternoon, the youth wing of China’s Communist Party was urging the 12 million followers of its Twitter-like Weibo account to show their support for two new animated cartoon characters.“Let’s meet two new friends, the league’s virtual idols Hongqiman and Jiangshanjiao,” the Communist Youth League said, encouraging followers to turn the duo into a top trending topic.Within a few hours, the messages and all sign of the characters in stylised traditional Chinese dress were gone.The…
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