According to the BBC, workers thought they were making colorful flags, until they saw footage from Hong Kong of Tibetan supporters waving their flags. Since the flags aren't big sellers in mainland China, it's an understandable mistake.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
A flag of inconvenience
In a delicious irony, a flag factory in Southern China has ceased production after twigging that the colourful flags they had been churning out to meet unexpectedly high demand from export customers were in actual fact the standard of the Tibetan government in exile.
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Hilarious. Leave it to China to be so unwittingly hypocritical. With their minds focussed on money and nationalism they have no time for worldly concerns. It shows perfectly how little China actually knows about the "Free Tibet" campaign they hate so much.
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