Redstate.com columnist Moe Lane commented on an incident that was reported only in the conservative media: acclaimed Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang played a patriotic theme song from an anti-U.S. film, "Battle on Shangganling Mountain," set during the Korean War. Millions of Chinese viewing the performance on television immediately understood what was going on, but the Obama administration apparently didn't have a clue.
UPDATE: Since we welcome intellectual diversity on this blog, read the first (and so far only) comment that one of my readers wrote for a different take.
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You might want to google "China's God Bless America" to see what this song is really about.
To say the song is anti-American is like saying Star Spangled Banner is anti-British. We play it to the Queen, does it mean we are rubbing her nose in? The Revolutionary War and Korean War are both historical facts, so what does it have to do with respective state visits today?
Lang Lang picked a song for the visiting guest, don't read too much into it. It was also sang during the Olympics, in front of President Bush.
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