Daily Mail: Victoria's Secret Police! Shanghai fashion show is in CHAOS because 'authorities are closely controlling the event with SPIES even combing emails and stalking models to expel regime critics'
* The show is scheduled to begin on Monday, but organizers are scared to send emails due to the police state
* They're trying to get around visa issues for Gigi Hadid and Adriana Lima but worry about secret police
* Hadid purportedly made a racist 'Asian' face in February; other models may have made social media remarks
* Katy Perry's performance visa was pulled after authorities found out about a 'pro Taiwan' gig she did in 2015
* The show's executive producer has not denied that Perry and Hadid were blocked, but commended China
* He said that officials had been very helpful when they were putting the show together
China's secret police are usually concerned about undercover foreigners, but right now they're more worried about foreigners that are under barely any cover at all, it has been claimed by Victoria's Secret insiders.
The organizers of Monday's lingerie show in Shanghai are dealing with a string of organizational disasters that have seen top model Gigi Hadid and guest star Katy Perry banned from the country and Adriana Lima's residency - she's currently in China - imperiled.
Victora's Secret is hardly the first Western firm to struggle with the incomprehensible bureaucracy and managerial incompetence that's endemic in China, but things are complicated by fears that they are being spied on.
That's left the China-based team flustered, as they can't call on help from the US headquarters for fear of having their missives intercepted and used against them.
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Update: Victoria's Secret Staff Think The Chinese Are Spying On Them (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... this will be the last time that a Victoria Secrets show will be held in China. And as for doing business in China .... here is the golden rule. If the Chinese really want what you are selling (or have), they will give you the red-carpet treatment. But if you are selling (or having) something that they do not need .... and it appears that lingerie is not a priority for the Chinese government (God only knows why) .... expect headaches.
2 comments:
Quid pro quo for NK help?
WNU.. you should know why.. it's not about lingerie, but two things, and two things only
1. Uncontrolled criticism during a live event - the nightmare of anyone working in China's agenda arm.
2. The building of the Chinese race image. Google it. It's about depicting Chinese people as superior, whenever possible. If you have nearly 2 meter tall, beautiful models from all over the world, especially from the US, then this is bad, because it doesn't promote CHINESE models enough.
You will see more and more of this. Pay attention. China is transforming to a war-ready machine, not only from a technological, economical and military perspective, but importantly, from a propaganda perspective in which Caucasians, Blacks, Idians, everyone are portrayed as inferior. It's their pivot from immitating us, back to their roots of "The chinese Empire and the Chinese People and the Chinese Philosophers etc etc etc are the greatest thing on Earth". Don't marry a westerner.. marry a Chinese. Don't be friendly to Westerners at work, they are spies.
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