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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TideGlider who wrote (777486)4/6/2014 9:05:06 PM
From: J_F_Shepard  Read Replies (3) of 1573928
 
The picture isn't fake, but they aren't flags.

During her visit to China, Michelle Obama was photographed holding red banners (as shown above), an image that was later widely circulated via social media out of context, accompanied by criticisms that it portrayed the First Lady "waving red communist flags." Although red flags have been used as symbol of communism since the 1870s, and the national flag of China (like that of the former Communist USSR) is predominantly red in design, the red banners that Michelle Obama was pictured waving in China were not Chinese/communist flags or other overt political symbols but rather accessories employed by a troupe of traditional Chinese folk dancers whose performance the First Lady joined:
Michelle Obama gamely joined in with a troupe of folk dancers as she visited the Chinese city of Xi'an.

The First Lady swayed to the music, having earlier accepted an invitation to jump rope and tested out her shuttlecock-kicking skills.

Crowds three or four deep strained for a glimpse of the first family, according to a pool report.



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