Anti-American Song Played at State Dinner

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Anti-American Song Played at State Dinner

By Cathy Yan

Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang in many ways embodies the Sino-American comity that both President Hu Jintao and President Barack Obama emphasized during their summit this past week-which is no doubt why he was chosen to perform at the White House state dinner for Mr. Hu on Wednesday.

After bilingual comments to the assembled VIPs in which he said it was a "great honor" to be playing, he proceeded to perform a solo piece, which he introduced as a "Chinese song called ‘My Motherland.'"

The song is not just any old song. As Chinese netizens have pointed out, "My Motherland" is the theme song for a famous anti-U.S. movie about the Korean War from 1956, titled "Battle on Shangganling Mountain."


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