The latest advertisements in The Economist’s “Where do you stand?” series – currently placed throughout the subway system in the U.K. – present two contrasting posters on China’s relationship to the West. One poster displays a menacing panda with devilish red eyes under the headline “CHINA IS A THREAT TO THE WEST”; the other, a gentle and naïve panda with the headline “CHINA IS A FRIEND TO THE WEST.”[1]
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