China Warns Against Falling in Love With Foreigners in New Poster
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It's called "Dangerous Love" and it was for National Security Education Day
The Chinese government pasted posters warning against falling in love with foreign strangers and handing over state secrets in honor of a new holiday: National Security Education Day.
National Security Education day falls on April 15 and was launched after a new law that called for greater political, territorial, military, cultural and technological security, the New York Times reports . Sharing state secrets is a serious crime in China. A man was recently sentenced to death for selling documents to foreign spies between 2002 and 2011, according to Reuters . The man was a former computer technician; he shared over 150,000 classified documents.
Last Friday, however, a poster warned women not to be wooed by foreign men looking to nab state secrets. The posters were titled “Dangerous Love” and featured a cartoon depiction of a love story gone wrong.
The young woman in the 16-panel cartoon is a civil servant named Xiao Li who falls for a red-headed foreigner she meets at a party. The Guardian reports the posters appeared on public bulletin boards to target low to mid-level employees. The posters also appeared in Beijing’s financial district, where many foreigners work .
The NYT asked about a dozen passersby if they were at all swayed by the signage, but few even noticed it. Those who did couldn’t understand it.
“How could ordinary people know anything about state secrets?” one man asked. “If even young girls know secrets, what kind of secrets are they?
http://time.com/4304572/china-warns-against-falling-in-love-with-foreigners-in-new-poster
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Sounds like a plot for a good romantic comedy.
Constance Wu
Ryan Gosling
star in
Dangerous Love : The Spy Who Fed Me Eggrolls
You really have to watch out for those red headed strangers, red headed step childern as well.
I am assuming there are few to no redheads who are Chinese, thus making red hair a dead giveaway of a "stranger". These people are so clever, lol.
Ha ha!!! My hair is white and my wife doesn't know any state secrets except how to make really good dumplings.
The guy on the left looks familiar, Buzz is that you???
I have seen such ignoramuses in China as well - but very rarely. Usually people who are really ugly anyway are the ones who go to those extremes such as multiple piercings, massive tatoos and stupid hair.
Ha ha!!! My hair is white
But was it red before it turned white? Hmmm???
Just take a look at my photos on my page - blonde when I was a little kid, then turned brown when older. Eventually gray, and now white (what's left of it).
Uh huh...sure...that's what hair dye is for...uh huh...
Ohhhkay. Didn't I see a story a while back about how many of the Chinese working in Africa are marrying African women? Could this be a subtle jab at that practice?