Why Did Chinese TV Play ‘America the Beautiful’ During Video of Rocket Launch
- Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:44am by
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China launched their Tiangong-1 space lab this week. And they did so with lots of fanfare naturally.
But viewers of of Chinese television might have been confused by the music in a video showcasing the launch.
As a tribute to the launch — which has been heralded as a major display of the country’s technological awesomeness — China Central Television treated viewers to footage of the launch, followed by animation of the Tiangong-1 module floating up to space — all to the tune “America The Beautiful.”
It is totally unclear what the meaning of this is.
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The choice of soundtrack for the Tiangong launch raised several questions. Is this the work of an idealist seeking to usher in a new era of trans-Pacific co-operation, a nationalist who wants to colonise American culture as well as outer space, or simply a propaganda gaffe?
When asked why an American hymn was chosen, the state channel appeared to be stumped.
“I don’t know how to answer your question,” Chen Zhansheng of the CCTV propaganda department said. “I cannot help you.”
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Comments (165)
dadsrootbeer
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:49amThis is easy. China is a communist country. Our adminstration is?
Report Post »BrandyWilson
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:21amThis is creepy on soooo many levels….don’t know where to start!
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:26ammaybe it was aimed at us………..
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 11:53amhmm.. it is creepy.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 12:07pm@BrandyWilson:
Understand what is going on in this case — politcal moves on a national level, to embarass the US, to show the world China is a up and coming power (the best friend/worst enemy kind), and to try and build nationalist sentiment within China for their communist leadership party.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 12:27pmAt some point it becomes beneficial for China to launch an all out nuclear attack on the USA. They have let this plan slip more than once. It will benefit them greatly by culling their herd of 1.3 billion mouths to feed. As soon as they have purchased or stolen all of our technology and have sufficiently hacked our defense systems, game on.
Some will say nonsense, China needs us to keep buying their products, why would they attack? They need us to buy from them to feed the very population they would lose in a nuclear war, it’s a wash. The war scenario eliminates it’s only competitor on the global stage and is simply put, easier and more permanent.
China is now expanding into space at the very time we are pulling out. WE no longer have shuttles that can destroy enemy sattelites, but China will soon have a robust offensive space program in place paid for by American dollars tendered by the sale of cheap goods. If all goes as planned we will be “blind” in space and all of our telecommunications and defense satelites will be sitting ducks. At which time they will make the calculation that war is better than peace and the attack will begin.
Have a nice day : )
Ookspay
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 12:42pmThey ought to play it. They stole most of their technology from us. They are supposed to be so smart ,yet the last invention they could call their own was gun powder.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 2:07pmIt’s because China purchased America. They can play it whenever they like.
Until OBAMA, the Communist Chinese flag had NEVER been flown at the White House. May I suggest getting a book or CD with some Mandarin language lessons?
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:23pmHooray!! they did something we did in the 70′s!! Hooray!!
Report Post »Red on the Head
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:25pmDo you suppose some of the technology that was stolen has our anthem built in and they found out about it the hard way? Nah, they’re messing with our minds.
Report Post »Welcome Black Carter
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 7:15pmMaybe we forgot to copy right the song… That would be about right, we would have to pay anytime the song was used.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:31pmYou don’t know?
The CHICOMs are mocking us and showing us that we are finished as a serious people and who could deny it?. They are able to do in space things that we lead the world in and surrendered so blacks and tan could have free homes, free food, free college degrees and health care. America has squandered our children’s Rendezvous with destiny and for what?
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:44pmChina is on its way to the colonization of Mars. The 21 Century will be a Sino-Russian Century with the USA becoming as insignificant a nation as Spain. Is it worth it so that Blacks and Tans can have the home of their dreams without having to pay anything for it. Our nation has had the greatest act of High Treason committed by its leaders than any nation in the history of Earth.
Report Post »christos
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:39am….First thought they are mocking America the sell out.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:55amSecond thought is that they could NOT have made this without the technology that was either given to them by US, or stolen by them from US!! Thought they would give credit where credit was due!!!!!
Report Post »Thevoice
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:11amThat’s exactly what they did….. mock us..
Report Post »People today are just dumb. To the Chinese it’s a way to say to us they own it now. Again to all that think you are some business genius importing and reselling Chinese made junk …Your not…What you are to the Chinese are a tool that when they are done with you .Will be discarded to the garbage.
christos
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:17am@VENNYOE why would the enemies of +GOD+ give credit where credit is due,the only credit they acknowledge is monetary,I completely agree with your post.
Report Post »BrandyWilson
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:28amHey…Ever heard of the Chinese having a genuine original thought?…Nope!
Report Post »jmf_stl
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:55amThey were thanking Bill Clinton for the Loral Space deal which gave them the technology.
I mean why not whats national security when you can get illegal donations for the democRAT party?
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 11:54amthe sound could have been part of the rocket they stole and they didn’t know how to disable it.. LOL
Report Post »netmail
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 12:06pmBrandy….“original thought”??? They invented gun powder….to blow our asses up with. On an official level, Chinese leaders are smart, cunning and ruthless. The Chinese work ethic (largely forced) more than makes up for their lack of creativity. Generally speaking, they’re scary….and, I believe, underestimated as well.
Report Post »obamanation
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:27pmSo they invented gun powder… what have they done recently?
For a country that has tremendous mass production capability… they really lack lack ingenuity, creativity, and originality.
They have the capability to invent amazing, never before seen products, but they don’t. Why is that?
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:35pmYou cannot save a people who refuse to be saved. If you transport 50 million people from Mexico to America it is no longer America. These 50 million came here for a better life not to be Americans. Just as the USSR was finished so is the USA and we must break up into separate nations just like the USSR. If you don’t like the idea then say behind and die.
Report Post »teapartyconservatism
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:38amHad enough yet? Wouldn’t it be great to void the laws Obama passed and undo the huge debt he caused? You can!
Constitution, Art. 2, Sec. 1, “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible … .”
Exempting a “citizen” from being a “natural born citizen” proves they aren’t equal, or no exemption was needed. Being not less than nor equal, a NBC must be more than the minimum requisite for citizenship then, which was US birth to a US citizen parent. Only US birth to US citizen parents (plural) is greater, thus defining a natural born citizen.[1]
The Supreme Court agreed in Minor v. Happersett, 1874. “The Court held that Minor was a member of the “class” of persons who were natural born citizens. They defined this class as those born in the US to “parents” (plural) who were citizens.” – Leo Donofrio, JD.
Even if born in HI, Obama is not a natural born citizen! His Kenyan father precludes eligibility.
Usurpers are arrested, not impeached. Obama must be prosecuted for using an alleged fraudulent social security number and birth certificate in usurping the Presidency! Then every law, executive order and appointment Obama inflicted on us is invalidated.
Please petition your Sheriff and others to investigate Obama now!
1. TPC, “Obama is Not an Eligible Natural Born Citizen,” http://teapartyconservatism.blogspot.com (8/18/2011).
Report Post »We are Americans
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:40amIf what you say is true.
Report Post »Then the supreme court, the congress,
and of course our president are complicit
in knowingly breaking the laws of our
USA. For who? Why? Let it go. 2012 is coming
We the people will take care of it then.
Stop being so paranoid. It hurts the cause.
AmericanPatriot01
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:22pmThis country DOES NOT HAVE THE TIME to wait, (people just don’t understand) the solutions that are being talked about right now are NEEDED RIGHT NOW to be vialble solutions. In another year these solutions will be would’a, could’a, & should‘a’s. We have to stop this travisty, TYRRANY MUST BE STOPPED! He is imposing fiat executive orders, implementing his plans without and despite the congress and the people of america. He is now assassintating American Citizens and has done away with any consideration of the Constitution and the historic laws of our land.
In another year, he will have transformed our government and our security forces into a control force designed to enforce civility and assimillation into the new global order. Those that oppose will be minimalized or eliminated systematically. Dig your hole and crawl into it or DO SOMETHING NOW!! GET LOUD!! DEMAND ACTION NOW!!! THEY ARE IMPLEMENTING AGENDA 21 RIGHT NOW with the international trading zones like the china hub they are trying to build in St.Louis Missouri.
Soon there will be no options, he put into place devout muslims in control positions of the Department of HOMELAND SECURITY for a reason. He is building his security force and they will not sympathize with the plight of the downtrotten American citizen.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 3:31pmTeapartyConman, repeating the same lie over and over doesn’t make it true. You know perfectly well that in Minor v Happersett the Supreme Court specifically stated that the full definition of a natural born citizen was not a settled issue and that they were not ruling on it because it had nothing to do with the case at hand
“Some authorities go further and include as citizens children born within the jurisdiction without reference to the citizenship of their parents. As to this class there have been doubts, but never as to the first. For the purposes of this case it is not necessary to solve these doubts.”
And you also know that they did finally rule on it in US v Wong Kim Ark (1998). That’s the binding precedent that has been the law of our land ever since, and it says you just have to be born here, it doesn’t matter who your parents were.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 5:08pmOops, I meant US v Wong Kim Ark (1898). This is a precedent that has stood for almost half our history, not one set ten years ago.
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 7:03pm@We are Americans
If we’re not going to obey the constitution, then what is guiding us?
According to you, nothing. Let’s just cruise along without a constitution and hope the Progressives don’t steal what’s left of our country? They’ve already stolen everything that hasn’t been tied down by the constitution and now you’d let them steal the presidency too?
Words mean things. Without agreement on the definitions of words, communication and contracts meaningless.
If we cannot even agree on the most simple basic definitions such as what constitutes a “Natural Born Citizen”, then what hope do we have to agree on more complex issues?
If I were in a position of political power, I would dig my heels in and refuse to negotiate anything else until the fundamental basics were nailed down. What has gotten us into such peril is that we have too long ignored the most basic questions. We allow the left to redefine words to suit their purposes and don’t challenge them enough – at our peril.
Now we are faced with the worst crises in American history – leaving our grandchildren with a debt too big for us to repay because we haven’t complied with constitutional limits on government. What we fail to value – we will lose. We have failed to value our founding fathers’ genius in setting up a constitutionally-limited Republic and we will surely lose what little is left of it if we do not require compliance with the constitution.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 3:20pmEnuff Zenuff
Report Post »There is no real disagreement about this issue. The term was not defined in the Constitution. After over a hundred years of dispute the Supreme Court ruled that, like all other legal terms used but not defined in the Constitution, it was defined by the laws of England at the time of our founding. No responsible Conservative spokesman with any knowledge of our laws and history, even those who went along with the birthers as far as demanding further proof of the President’s place of birth, has ever bought into any of this not eligible even if he was born here nonsense. Most of the President’s Republican opponents are lawyers, and the rest all have lawyers, if there was any merit at all to this argument don’t you think one of them would have brought it up in all these years? It is entirely a fake controversy manufacture by internet kooks for other internet kooks.
TxMadMac
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:35amThankyou mr president, another slap in 300 million faces !
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:43amIndeed, this was a well planned and deliberate “political gaff” on their part — meant to show to the people of China and America that with our demise of the shuttle program, we now are a second rate backwater space nation once again, that to China’s point of view is in the history bin once and for all.
Report Post »Al Gator
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 7:18pmThe Chinese do nothing, NOTHING AT ALL, that does NOT have symbolism and meaning (sometimes hidden) behind it.
I lived in Asia for too many years to believe that a “mistake” was made, or some “gaff” just “happened.”
This was a signal, and in my opinion a sarcastic signal, that what was America’s greatest deed, is now nothing more than a joke in the palm of Beijing’s hands.
You ain’t seen nothing yet. They blame us for 100s of years of poverty and privation. They see no difference between us and the Brits who humiliated them in two opium wars. Now its time to be Chinese, and flex the muscle, and PUNISH all past wrongs, real or perceived.
Our next great war will be with China. Japan, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines and maybe even Russia will be our allies.
Hope it won’t happen, but I know the players too well.
Report Post »cyntro
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:30amIs there any other way they could have made sure the maximum number of Americans would see this rocket launched?
Report Post »starman70
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:29amSome politicians are rattling their mouths about China. We all know that 80% of everything in our stores is made in China. They are telling us that if we mess with them, they could level us.
The real tragedy is that we allowed ourselves to get into this position in the first place. Corporate greed, union greed and the incompetence of our politicians is to blame. It has gone way too far to fix now. We, America, are well on our way to being a Failed Socialist European style economy and if Obama and his Chicago politicians have their way, we will become a third world economy.
Report Post »Phantom II
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 11:12am@starman70. You mention corporate greed and our journey toward a Failed European style economy in the same breath. Make up your mind. I started importing my products from China in 99. My factory moved there in 03. I started retailing there in 05 and now I have no exposure to the US market save for a few income properties which I am trying to unload. I keep most of my profits and there are few obstacles including trial lawyers. Shanghai is fantastic city and many Americans live there. Chinese kids are more like American kids were when I was growing up in Atlanta in the 50s. They are very pro American and have a bright future. They are polite and hardworking. The next generation of leaders were born in late 60s and 70s andare freedom loving, We are heading toward what they have emerged from. They will colonize ruthlessly. If we don’t get a Reagan type president and complete control of both houses, we are done and I’m out of here. Fox, Beck and Limbaugh are making a big mistake bashing the ‘Chi-coms’. We must make them our friends and partners. The people who built America are no longer having children and the current generation don’t have American ideals anymore. They say things like you do. Our new immigrants vote Democrat. We must replace Spanish with Mandarin now. The future lies with China where profit is not considered greed. The Art of War is in play while we read our Little Red Books.
Report Post »“Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.”: Jeffe
Netsurfer2
Posted on October 2, 2011 at 1:31amJeffe,
We have a totally different situation than China as far as society goes! China does not have the influence of drugs like we do, but their kids are getting more and more spoiled and a record number of them are dropping out of schools because of the video game influences and such. I know this first hand because I know a family in China who are having problems with their son on these issues. I have been all over China from Shenzhen to Qiqihar and I agree with you on what the people are like! They are fun loving people who really do care about enjoying life and at the same time work very hard to accomplish goals! The food is great and I can never see enough when I go there! They are ruled by the communist party, but have a structure of business like we do here economically. If it were not for Deng opening up the two port cities in China, it would have never became a reality for them to ever prosper! I don’t believe China really wants to cause America problems, because they have their own from the inside who really want democracy if not even a republic! Religion is hidden, but many practice Christianity! They come here and thrive with education beyond what we do and you wonder why they progress so much in life???
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:25amagain………. America the Beautiful all though a very patriotic song is NOT our national anthem.
Report Post »Aude sapere
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 10:43amIndeed… but that is not the point.
Report Post »For their first launch, they should have played some beautiful Chinese themes, won’t you agree? China has a thousand-year old history, I am sure there are plenty of traditional hymns.
Then, why, of all the songs available in this wide world, they chose America the Beautiful?
Beethoven’s Ninth… or the March from Aida, or whatever other piece…. why, oh why then America the Beautiful???
I SPY
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:23amThey’re attempting to mimic greatness which is America. There is nothing in this world like the REAL THING.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:30amI’ll take a stab at it. Maybe, just maybe, the person who chose that song only listened to the words as far as “Oh beautiful for spacious skies”? Maybe googled songs about the sky? Just guessin’.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:21amAlso makes me sad for what has been stolen from the American people.
Report Post »kentuckyjim
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:21amAmerica, America we own your ass right nowwwww.
Report Post »JustPeachy
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:20amWhile considering all the possibilities from the comments made here so far, I just thought it was really WEIRD. LOL I mean, would we play THEIR theme or the theme of any other country when WE launched anything?!?
HECK NO! LOL
I almost felt as if our song was hijacked–it made me feel uneasy and kind of wanting to say, “Hey… um… that’s OURS!” LOL
Maybe it is a mocking of sorts–normally OUR flag would have been on those rocket ships. . .but thanks to Obama, he’s shut even that part of us down.
CAIN 2012. :)
Cain will once again launch our American dreams and put us back into orbit–where we BELONG.
Report Post »johnny2k
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:56amI 100% agreeeee!!!
Report Post »Aude sapere
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:17amThe chills are going down my spine, as I watch this video.
Report Post »That a giant circle seems to be tightening around us…
We, Americans, got to wake up. Our politicians got to wake up, before it is too late.
Lev Navrozov has been writing about the Chinese danger for years – and yet, we are still asleep.
Or just numbed…
Harold B
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:11amAmerica and China have swapped roles . China is now a successful economy and America is now a bankrupt Marxist economy
Report Post »As a country we will adopt the pattern of universal povert amd a centralized planning for our economy.
Alot of people will have to accept dire poverty but will rejoice in our social justice as we proudly point to the fact that our personal incomeis among the lowest in the world and nobody admires our country, We will complain to Mexico that they are to mean to American citizens that just want to pick tomatoes and access the high Mexican wages. We will point to the fact that they did that to us. The Mexican president will gave our president the finger and say, “screw you Gringo or Gringo go home. The Chinese have the right to play America the beautiful because they are exercising American economic freedom just as we can all start to wear blue pajama’s as our only set of clothes.
Devil Dog 7175
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:10amCuz Bill Clinton sold them the means to launch and guide these missles in the guise of “Video Game” components which were far ahead of their technology at the time. They are just saying Thank You America , for allowing us to build and launch missles that can now reach and destroy you! ; )
Report Post »ricoSacto
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:09amyer kiddin’, right?
Report Post »ricoSacto
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:08amnfw
Report Post »randy
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:07amBecause without the technology that Clinton, GE and lord knows how many other treasonous Americans Presidents and Companies fed them, they would not be able to launch anything into space.
Report Post »johnny2k
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:23amRandy, you stole my thunder, but it was a great comment, I must say. I was only going to mention that the Chinese were saying “Thank you” for the technology that they got from us, without even having to use spies… just the treasonous President and companies you mentioned. Yep, America is such a great country where you can buy anything … with enough campaign contributions to the right (wrong) people!
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:06amLOL, the Chinese can use our national anthem, but our own kids can’t say the pledge of allegiance?
Tell me again, which nation is a free people?
Report Post »Harold B
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:12amAre you allowed to think that?
Report Post »Vapor Trail
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:24amOur national anthem is the Star Spangled Banner not America the Beautiful.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:24amAmerica the Beautiful all though a very patriotic song is NOT our national anthem.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:03amI told Obama not to allow the national anthem to be used as collateral!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:17amPerhaps a tribute to Bernie Schwartz and Buba Clinton, in appreciation for the secret missile technology they received for campaign $$$? Or, maybe the Chi-Coms are touting their biggest acquisition — America. They own us.
Report Post »Too bad the “free” trade deals supported for the last three decades, mostly by Republicans, have brought us to the economic brink. And, they want to do MORE of them!?!
kburd001
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:22amNot to be overly picky, but “America the Beautiful” is not the national anthem. It’s still a great song, though!
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:59amTwo likely explanations:
They liked the tune and had no idea what it was. This would be the flip side of all the idots who wear tattoos of chineese charcters without knowing what they mean simply because they look cool.
OR, someone in charge of it likes America, but does not want to say so publicly. If that is the case, let him remain anonymous. We don’t want him to end up lying in an unmarked grave with his liver in some Indonesian Lawyer.
Report Post »Socialism_Is_The_New_Black
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:29amLol! Love your comments. Occam’s razor for-the-win!
Report Post »scaldisnoel
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 12:11pmAmen. The conspiracy theories that are suggested in the comments with every China-related story get a bit old. The Chinese are just as susceptible to an “oops” as anyone else. They may have done it on purpose, but it is at least as likely that somebody heard the tune for the first time and thought that it sounded pretty good, so they used it as background music. 99% of the Chinese people have probably never heard the song, and as a result, have no reason to associate it with the United States.
Report Post »RedPill
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:55amWe need to be a bit more paranoid and consider that this was intentional. This “space lab” could be a trojan horse or spy sat or something more military and the song was played as an early warning to us ignorant Americans. We need to have some eyes on this device to make sure that it is not going to send some payload to us next time we challenge their power over Taiwan or take people and companies back from their grip. Lets look into this further.
Report Post »Popp40
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:07amI have to agree with you. I see this as being done intentionally as if to say your days are over….and it is our turn to be #1.
The sad thing is our leaders will blow this off and act like it isn’t a big deal as they continue to push us down the road of decline.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 11:08amThey’re building a trojan horse and yet they gave us a warning?
I don’t think I could be stoned enough for that to make sense. So I’ll just stay sober.
Report Post »Laus Deo
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:54am“From sea to shining sea?” Is that the message?
Report Post »cknapp
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:54amIt is obvious, they were thanking us for subsidizing the launch through the profits they have made by “investing” in America…and they are mocking us, laughing at us because while America has no human launch capability at this time, they, the C@mmies, former 4th world country….can.
America no longer can send a man into space, we closed an atom smasher, we no longer manufacture televisions…..I am almost embarrassed to be an American…WE are becoming a third world country.
Craig Knapp
Report Post »age 50
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Secessionista
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:07amBravo Craig!
Report Post »donflow
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:53amMaybe they played it as a tribute to the country they now own…
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 9:13amYep
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on October 1, 2011 at 8:52amCould it be that they want to destroy America the beautiful with this rocket? They have used music to mock America while visiting the White House. Most likely what they did for this event also. We are the laughing stock of the world now.
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