Greetings, Citizen
A “personal” holiday greeting from President Hu Jintao was delivered Tuesday to an unknown number of Chinese citizens lucky or affluent enough to own upscale video mobile phones.
The 27-second message, in which Hu’s digitalized voice sounded somewhat like a squawking, semi-inebriated robot (“All the leaders sound like that,” one recipient, 26-year-old Ji…
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