Kennedy Center Criticized for Staging Red Ballet

The communist regime in China sometimes has a funny way of building international understanding. Last weekend, for example, propaganda and cultural czars took the bold step of holding a Cultural Revolution-era “red ballet” at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Matthew Robertson
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/Wei_Jingsheng_91944246.jpg" alt="Chinese human rights activist Wei Jingsheng testifies before the House of Representatives' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in 2009. Wei spoke of China's communist propaganda ballet 'The Red Detachment of Women,' presented recently at the prestigious Kennedy Center, as 'very dangerous.' (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)" title="Chinese human rights activist Wei Jingsheng testifies before the House of Representatives' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in 2009. Wei spoke of China's communist propaganda ballet 'The Red Detachment of Women,' presented recently at the prestigious Kennedy Center, as 'very dangerous.' (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)" width="275" class="size-medium wp-image-1797185"/></a>
Chinese human rights activist Wei Jingsheng testifies before the House of Representatives' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission in 2009. Wei spoke of China's communist propaganda ballet 'The Red Detachment of Women,' presented recently at the prestigious Kennedy Center, as 'very dangerous.' (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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