This Thursday, June 20, 2019, photo shows a Vienna International Hotel in Sanya city in southern China’s Hainan province. The hotel chain is amongst 84 names listed by the Civil Affairs Department in Hainan whose names are in need to be “cleaned up” due to various reasons including “worship and have blind faith in foreign things.” China is cracking down on “foreign” names under a new campaign, stirring controversy amid a government-backed tide of rising nationalistic sentiment. (Chinatopix via AP) (Associated Press)BEIJING — The Manhattan neighborhood, Venice Garden, the Vienna hotel chain. To the ears of the Chinese government, the names are too foreign-sounding and must go. It maintained though that foreign names have an ugly social influence that needs to be cleaned up.

Source: Washington Post June 21, 2019 04:07 UTC