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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma

Graffiti war breaks out after Chinese Communist Party slogans appear on London’s Brick Lane

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London’s famous Brick Lane became a battleground for supporters and opponents of China’s Communist Party, as artists engaged in a graffiti war with slogans and signs countering each other.

It began after a group of artists spray-painted the big red Chinese characters that outline the 12 “core socialist values” on a nearly 100m long wall on East London Street on Saturday.

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