Today marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of Taiwan. To commemorate the anniversary, four papers on the mainland ran very similar front pages, which a few bloggers noted on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. A few of my China Daily colleagues retweeted (reweibo-ed?) it:
Clockwise from top left: Guangming Daily, People's Liberation Army Daily, People's Daily and Economic Daily.
Everything — from the headlines, to the photos, to the full text of the speech on the bottom — is exactly the same. It prompted a colleague to post this on Weibo:
He writes: “Us and them are not the same.”
Of course, this isn’t an uncommon thing. The People’s Daily regularly copies itself during the Two Sessions every March.
UPDATE (11:02 pm CST):
Nissan half-page ads on 33 front pages today.
UPDATE 2 (11:17 pm CST):
12 other papers use the same picture as China Daily today.
Bridget O'Donnell, 24, is a designer for the
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