Communist Propaganda Stunt Behind Chance to Win Chinese New Year Money

Netizen comments mocked the event for what many perceive as ideological bribery and a misuse of public funding.
Communist Propaganda Stunt Behind Chance to Win Chinese New Year Money
Photo illustration shows newly minted Hong Kong Dollar banknotes (US$1 equivalent to HK$7.77) and "lai see" or lucky money red packets in Hong Kong on Jan. 27, 2006. Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty Images
Juliet Song
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Traditional red envelope packets of Chinese New Year money gifts have gone online, with 8 billion electronic envelopes sent this years via just one social media platform, WeChat.

WeChat and other Chinese social media sites also offered red envelope lotteries worth hundreds of millions of yuan split between millions of winners. According to Radio Free Asia, the events received over 300 billion interactions nationwide.

(Sina Weibo)
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Juliet Song
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Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.
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