Relations between China and Canada took a new hit with a row over a T-shirt bearing an altered logo of the New York hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
Chad Hensler, a Canadian embassy staff member, was reported by mainland media to have ordered T-shirts emblazoned with a bat-like image around the words “Wu-Han” from Chinese T-shirt makers last summer, triggering criticism on Chinese social media that the T-shirts implied that the coronavirus originated from Wuhan after citizens ate bats.
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