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China Regulator Bans TV Parodies Amid Content Crackdown (reuters.com)
China's media regulator is cracking down on video spoofs, the official Xinhua new agency reported, amid an intensified crackdown on any content that is deemed to be in violation of socialist core values under President Xi Jinping. From a report: The decision comes after Xi cemented his power at a recent meeting of parliament by having presidential term limits scrapped, and the ruling Communist Party tightened its grip on the media by handing control over film, news and publishing to its powerful publicity department. Xinhua said video sites must ban videos that "distort, mock or defame classical literary and art works," citing a directive from the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television on Thursday.
What Communism? China hasn't had Communism since the Great Leap flopped and China decided to start industrialization and adopt business management and involvement in configuring the economy and centralizing, opposite of Communist and agrarian values.
They have a complex mix of Capitalism-Socialism-Communism-Fascism, Communism only being an outer mask for symbolic values and controlling the continental Chinese, and a big blend into Fascism which is the main control system in China with almost all the core principles of it ticked. It's hard for Westerners to comprehend mixing ideologies like using tools, because the west is still stuck in the mentality of treating systems as beliefs and tribal dogmas rather than neutral objects that all have their positive and negative purposes that can be applied to certain situations before a switch is required.