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shanghaiist.com — Clothing company Benetton has done it again with yet another unorthodox ad campaign. In its latest UNHATE series, president Hu Jintao locks lips with Barack Obama in a photoshopped image.

Other political nemeses making love include: Kim Jong Il vs Lee Myung Bak, Angel Merkel vs Nicolas Sarkozy, and Benjamin Netanyahu vs Mahmoud Abbas.

www.sinotechblog.com.cn — This week, local papers say Beijing banned outdoor advertising that promotes hedonistic or high-end lifestyles as the government seeks to ease public concerns about the country's widening wealth gap.

www.boston.com — Republicans and Democrats alike needed an economic scapegoat, and China was an easy target. Unfortunately, instead of raising important, policy-based concerns about U.S.-China relations, many of these ads presented tired stereotypes of Chinese Americans to stir up fear and resentment in the American electorate.

tianjinexpats.com — According to a recent report in the Guangzhou Daily, two young, wealthy, post-80's men spent 80000 RMB initiating a “Girlfriend Wanted” campaign in several universities in Guangzhou . It was carried out by an agency with several attractive girls sending out flyers around college campuses.

www.micahfk.com — Here I was eating my dinner and watching TV when an ad came on TV that beautifully meshed in The Mummy 3 with the Beijing Olympics for a TV commercial trailer. Now, regardless of what you may think of The Mummy (1 or 2), from an advertising perspective, that was an amazing mesh of two ads into one TV commercial.