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Holy Christmas, is THAT what's promoting our six month world-class event in New York City's Time Square? Considering how much ad space costs there, you'd think the Expo promotion team would have spent a little extra money to make their ad look a little less like someone had to do a rush job in photoshop. At least pay for a decent font or something.
Then again, considering what the USA Pavilion has turned into - maybe this is a tit for tat: a showing that China can also spend extravagant amounts of money to make something cheap and cluttered and boring... at their own event?
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Since when is the vast majority of Chinese advertising not "cheap and cluttered and boring" - in their own country?
A lack of Photoshop skills aside, the promoters might have at least plastered an image of the USA Pavilion - you know, some easy culture points?
Here is the page I tried to link to in my previous comment: http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/66102/6916662.html
(No 'edit' button, Shanghaiist?)
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