NEW YORK — New York's iconic Empire State Building will light up red and yellow Wednesday in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China.
The Chinese consul, Peng Keyu, and other officials will take part in the lighting ceremony which will bathe the skyscraper in the colors of the People's Republic until Thursday, Empire State Building representatives said in a statement.
The upper sections of the building are regularly illuminated to mark special occasions, ranging from all blue to mark "Old Blue Eyes" Frank Sinatra's death in 1998 to green for the annual Saint Patrick's Day.
Just last week the tower turned bright red.
However, that was not to mark some other communist achievement, but the 70th anniversary of the film "The Wizard of Oz" in which Dorothy wears ruby slippers rather than the silver of the original L. Frank Baum novel.
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I wrote in a previous blog concerning “China's national flag to go up at the White House" in honor of the 60th anniversary of communist China.
Will the slaughter of 60 million people under Communist Mao even be mentioned? What about the 50 million that went through Mao’s re-education through hard labor prison camps? What about the 1989 massacre of Chinese protesters in Tian'anmen Square? What about the human rights abuses (i.e. political prisoners, environmentalists, journalists, underground Christians) etc.
"Oh Crap, Have the Chinese foreclosed on us already?
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