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#PRC: Imitating Mao: Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill

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🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#PRC: Imitating Mao: Charles Burton, senior fellow at the Centre for Advancing Canada's Interests Abroad at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute,@GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-xi-is-resurrecting-maos-continuous-revolution-with-a-twist-ed5ec610

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Everyone is talking about the new Mean Girls movie.

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It's a new twist from Tina Fay.

0:06.0

Mortis, the Queen Bee.

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0:08.0

Don't look her in the eye.

0:09.0

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You change like everything.

0:15.0

Don't miss the meanest event on the big screen.

0:19.0

Come here, I want to fix your eyebrows.

0:20.0

Can I still have two?

0:22.0

Oh, hell no.

0:24.0

Mean Girls is exclusively in cinema's January 17th.

0:27.0

Book tickets now.

0:28.0

Certificate 12A. This is a

0:39.9

CVS, I on the world. I'm John Bachelor with my friend and colleague Gordon Chang at Gordon Chang. It is the summer of 1966. I was listening to Rock and Roll on a transistor radio.

0:48.0

Maoutse Tung, however, was plotting a revolution, a continuous revolution that translated into mass

0:57.2

murder and theft and destruction of what was left of the Chinese cultural

1:02.0

heritage of hundreds, thousands of years.

1:05.6

To help me tell this story, I know it from the perspective of the Red Guards and the Confessions

1:11.1

of the Red Guards who are now in their 60s and 70s of remembering those

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