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It's tough to gauge the impact this KFC China spot—featuring a Barack Obama look-alike chowing down on a fish fillet sandwich—will have on Sino-American relations. On the one hand, it's kind of disrespectful, with Fauxbama's thumbs-up endorsement ("Mmmm … change is good") coming a bit too close for comfort to the rah-rah vapidity of real American political advertising. Even so, using Obama here makes more sense than, say, Chinese leader Hu Jintao, who probably wouldn't touch that deep-fried processed crap even if he were stuck in Times Square without access to Yelp.
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