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Fake Apple Store Picture

Faked in China, cont.

9:26 AM, Feb 6, 2012 • By JONATHAN V. LAST

Last summer I wrote about China's truly astounding penchant for faking Western products. The Chinese will fake everything from toys to entire Apple stores.

Well, now they've faked a Ford F150. And they're so brazen about it, they're going to roll the rip-off out at the Beijing Auto Show in April. Amazing.

By Jonathan V. Last

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Jonathan V. Last is a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. His writings have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, the Week, Salon, Slate, TV Guide, and elsewhere.

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