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Imagethief discusses about the recent attack at Starbucks at the Forbidden City by a CCTV celebrity Rui Chenggang: The nice thing about singling out the easy target of Starbucks is that it plays on cheap, nationalist sentiment while completely avoiding a related but much larger and more important discussion about the preservation of China's national patrimony and the history of its defilement.
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