China bans “ObaMao” T-shirt during Obama’s presidential visit – China News

www.chinahush.com — If you ever walked through souvenir shops in Beijing this past year, you must have seen the line of “ObaMao” souvenirs – wallets, posters and T-shirts etc. The design is President Barack Obama’s face dressed in Chair Mao’s Red Guards’ cap and uniform. Ever since Barack Obama was elected as the U.S. president over the past year this T-shirt was selling like hot cakes. However Chinese government just banned this product, at least during Obama’s presidential visit in China. The reason was that they fear the T-shirt might offend the U. S. President and cause embarrassment.

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