China | Reality television
You’re stir-fried squid
That is, “you’re fired” in Chinese: officials meet “The Apprentice”
|BEIJING
CHINA doesn’t have free elections. It has reality television instead. The latest such show even has the flavour of a political contest: the competitors are all high-ranking officials. It has been a big hit.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “You’re stir-fried squid”
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June 18th 2016
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