Chicago Sun-Times: Intention of uniting with Taiwan to be put in writing
Update: China makes mix tape for Taiwan

Beijing, China: Chinese leaders spent Friday night making a mix tape for Taiwan—a move experts say is designed to patch a growing rift between the two countries. While reporters have not been able to obtain a copy of the mix tape, Chinese VP Zeng Qinghong held a short press conference this morning where he described a painstaking creation process. “A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to hold the attention. Then you have to take it up a notch, but not blow your wad, so maybe cool it off a notch, and you can't put the same artist twice on the tape, except if some subtle point or lesson or theme involved” He added: “in our case, the theme was international relations and peace in the Tawian strait so we knew how difficult this was going to be”

Chinese leaders admitted to working with a limited lexicon: “There’s lots of new music in China right now but we are not too familiar with it. President Hu suggested some of the standards like Reddest the Sun, I Love the Blue Sky of My Motherland, or Sweet-scented Osmanthus Blooms with the Arrival of Happiness, but we felt that these were all out of date so we’ve included some Dao Lhang and Zhou Jielun.” Mr. Zeng would not confirm the presence of a rumored Menudo song on the album “We will say that someone suggested Tu Te Imaginas but we won’t say whether we used it.”
- posted by JB @ 8:25 AM