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		odinduty on April 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chinese state media discourages April Fools' Day There's absolutely nothing in that post that makes me think it's an opinion piece or an editorial. It's a regular news entry, and a very misleading one, if not outright malicious.

Laforet on April 1, 2016 [–]

The Weibo handle quoted in the WaPo article was named "Xinhua Opinions/Viewpoints", does not get more obvious than that.

odinduty on April 1, 2016 | [–]

And the Washington Post article clearly says, despite of that, that the April Fools day was banned. Read the title.

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