Chinese Communist Party Mouthpiece Republishes Onion Article

Claimed Kim Jong Un is "Sexiest Man Alive"

SOMETIMES China flexes its soft power without really having any idea it has done so. That appears to be what happened on November 27th when the People's Daily Online, a website of the Communist Party's English-language mouthpiece, republished an article by the Onion, a satirical version of an American newspaper, declaring North Korea's Kim Jong Un the "Sexiest Man Alive". The republication, complete with a gallery of 55 photographs of the North Korean dictator at work and play, quickly became an internet sensation.