Everyone's a Critic: China Blasts "Chinese Democracy"

By Dave Itzkoff | The New York Times
November 24, 2008

It's no secret how the Chinese government feels about democracy. Now it has weighed in on "Chinese Democracy," too. The Associated Press reported that The Global Times, the official tabloid of China's Communist Party, published a withering critique of the new Guns N' Roses album, "Chinese Democracy." Without referring to the group by name, The newspaper headlined its story "American band releases album venomously attacking China" and described the record as part of a larger Western conspiracy to "grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn." After a delay of nearly 17 years, "Chinese Democracy" was released in the United States on Sunday, but with lyrics like "When your Great Wall rocks, blame yourself," it is unlikely to ever reach Chinese stores.

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