India - China: Relations And Developments-2

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<b>Mao sperm ad angers Chinese</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->
  China's official media and outspoken bloggers on Friday protested over a German advert promoting the use of condoms which shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.
The Communist Party's People's Daily devoted a page to the storm, quoting internet commentaries which called for the makers of the advert to apologise to China.

The Global Times newspaper said advertising agency Grey Worldwide, which made <b>the safe sex advert for Doc Morris Pharmacies, had sent a letter of apology to the Chinese consulate in Frankfurt.</b>

<b>The campaign showing Mao, Hitler and Bin Laden as human spermatozoids has sparked a debate in China</b> and among international blogging. Not all Chinese appear to agree with the official line of anger.

"I am a former worker who is now 70. I have thought about it a lot and I still cannot understand why these people defend Mao so strongly," said one comment on the sina.com website.

<b>Last year, French car maker Peugeot Citroen apologised for using an advert in Spain which showed Mao as a cross-eyed old man</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->