Controversial McCafe opens in Historic Villa in China

 

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Photo of West Lake from user Shizhao – Wikimedia Commons

 

A McCafe opened November 15 in historic building in the Chinese city of Hangzhou with lots of controversy. The 84-year-old villa once briefly housed, Chiang Ching-kuo, a former Taiwan leader and son of Chiang Kai-shek , near  famous West Lake. Some locals have decried it as an act of Western cultural desecration.

 

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