“Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong,” commonly known as “The Little Red Book,” was translated into dozens of languages during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) and more than one billion copies were exported to other countries to brainwash the world. Today, half a century later, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is picking up this “red” tradition, and giving Amazon’s China Books a key role. On July 14, Mareike Ohlberg, senior fellow at German Marshall Fund, tweeted, “By sheer coincidence, I came across the Amazon China Bookstore. It’s a joint project of Amazon and the China International Book Trading Corporation, a company under the CCP’s Foreign Languages Office. This is what the page looks like right now.” She posted three screenshots from Amazon’s China Books store, which show the logo of the CCP’s 100th anniversary celebration and Xi Jinping’s book “The Governance of China” in both Chinese and English languages. On …
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