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China: Curse of the Olympic mascots?

Monday, June 16th, 2008 @ 20:05 UTC
by John Kennedy

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Global Voices Olympics In case you ever wondered if those Olympic Fuwas
weren't just a little too cute to be true, apparently you aren't the
only one.

For China, the superstitious formula to that effect which has been
making its way across various networks since the Sichuan earthquake
looks accurate enough given the number of tragic events which have
befallen China already this year. And mention of the Curse of the Fuwas
[zh] has been getting deleted left and right and off Baidu and there are
even separate versions, so the curse must really exist and the few
criticisms of the notion [zh] that do still exist are powerless to stop it.

So, Sohu blogger Elvia Wu sums it up in a post that has since been deleted:

中国，08年的中国真是多事之秋呀！