China’s high-spending tourists bring political clout
Countries at odds with China find holidaymakers from there stop coming
EARLIER THIS month the great pyramids of Giza and the nearby Sphinx were lit up in “Chinese red”. Spectators, many of them from China, were then given another unprecedented treat. The sound-and-light show, a staple of pyramid entertainment since 1961, was narrated in Chinese.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Holidaying for the motherland”
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