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Billy Dee asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 10 years ago

Why was "America the Beautiful," playing as the new Tiangong Chinese rocket was launched earlier this week?

Obviously did a few searches and did not get a satisfactory answer one way or another. Wanted to hear from you all.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/30/china-...

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    As the Tiangong space laboratory was being launched, television stations worldwide were broadcasting the event. Central Television wanted to choose background music for the launch. The music did not necessarily have a political meaning. The song "America the Beautiful" sounded good, thus that song was played.

    As William Shakespeare would have said, this whole issue is "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING".

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