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Xi Jinping’s Dreaming of a Red Christmas

At BloombergView, Adam Minter reports that the Chinese Communist Party is renewing a campaign to pushback against the celebration of Christmas and the associated Western cultural values that it symbolizes. Welcome to a new type of merry-making in China, where a Western holiday — even one drained of religious content, as it has been for most Chinese — can no longer be viewed simply as an opportunity to have a good time, but rather must be evaluated as one more parry