Moving in the Right Direction
January 6, 2009
This doesn’t seem like good PR for China, but I guess in the post-Olympics world, they figure no one will really notice. According to the UK Mirror,
China has confirmed itself as the ’king of counterfeiters’ with the building of a new shopping centre dedicated to fake brands.
Some of the brand impostors at the mall in Nanjing, east of Shanghai, include a McDonalds look-a-like burger bar called McDnoald’s, a Starbucks-style coffee shop called Bucksstar Coffee, and a wannabe Pizza Hut called Pizza Huh. [go to the link for logo hilarity]
I’m pretty sure there are some terms of their acension into the WTO being violated here though.
If you’ve never been to China (go! get on a plane!), it’s not like this is anything new, but it seems a bit brazen nonetheless to have all this in one, seemingly sanctioned, place. Anyways, this is part of what makes China so great as a tourist. Here’s a picture I took in a little village in the 3 Gorges area of inner China. The authorities were properly notified.
Makes sense if you can't pronounce the R.
