I wonder if the Beijing Evening News will reprint this as fact like they did when the Onion ran a story about the US Congress threatening to leave Washington unless a new Capitol was built...including the Capitol being fitted with a retractable dome. "If we want to stay competitive, we need to upgrade."
The best thing was the Chinese paper's response...
Yu Bin, the editor in charge of international news...adamantly ruled out a correction and grew slightly obstreperous when pressed to comment on the article's lack of truth.
"How do you know whether or not we checked the source before we published the story?" Yu demanded in a phone interview. "How can you prove it's not correct?"