China, you are so busted.

Wow. That's...funny.

I liked this part of the story better:
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This wouldn't be the first time Chinese media have been caught using fictional material for use in their news. In 2007, China's state-run Xinhua news agency ran a story about a discovery related to multiple sclerosis and illustrated the item with an X-ray showing the head of cartoon character Homer Simpson.
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edit: Found a link: http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/08/02/homer-simpson-x-ray-used-in-medical-article-in-chinese-news/
 
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Wow, the Chinese lied. Now that is news.

NOT.
 
In other news, the Chinese demonstrated they could safely parachute a tea pot back to Earth.
 

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only a matter of time before they come on with 'the images shown were only intended to be representative, not actual depictions of the test..'.
 
So would a Wikileaks page of Chinese official documents depict mostly cartoon characters and amatuer falsifications?
 
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-harry
 
Actual technology advancements require massive amounts of money and underlying technical expertise, neither of which China has at the moment. They are good at copying things and building on the work of others (their space program is based mostly on old Soviet technology) but not much beyond that. Also, you can't have innovation without freedom. Once they figure that out, they'll be able to compete with the US head to head.
 
Reminds me of the time the Beijing Evening News plagiarized an Onion article stating that Congress was threatening to leave DC if they didn't get a new Capitol building with a retractable dome.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/06/53048

There is just a mind-boggling shamelessness that pervades Chinese news culture. Not that the American news scene is always busily mining the truth...
 
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