Oops! Chinese factory unintentionally made ‘Free Tibet’ flags
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images Ah, globalization at work: Workers at a factory in China’s southern Guangdong province were making “Free Tibet” flags, naively unaware of what the colorful flags — banned in China — represented. The owner of the factory said the orders for the flags had been placed from overseas.
INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP/Getty Images
Ah, globalization at work: Workers at a factory in China’s southern Guangdong province were making “Free Tibet” flags, naively unaware of what the colorful flags — banned in China — represented.
The owner of the factory said the orders for the flags had been placed from overseas.
Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009-2016 and was an assistant editor from 2007-2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP
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