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Little Pinks, “The New Face of Chinese Nationalism”

After Tsai Ing-wen won Taiwan’s presidential election by a landslide in January, thousands of nationalistic Chinese web users organized a campaign to scale the infamous Great Firewall, and flood Tsai’s Facebook page with tens of thousands of patriotic images and criticisms of Taiwan’s independence movement. These wall-scaling youth—known as “little pinks” (xiǎo fěnghóng 小粉红)—have struck several times