China: Phallic Communist Party's newspaper HQ gets ribbing By By Stephen Morgan May 3, 2013 in World The Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, is causing a lot of laughter, because it's new building has the undeniable look of a giant penis. The massive building was erected to house the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party, but as the The The South China Morning Post is reporting that photos of the new construction have been circulating online and have faced ridicule in the Chinese social media, which embarrassed officials are now trying to clamp down on.The massive building was erected to house the official publication of the Chinese Communist Party, but as the Huffington Post says, “When it comes to office buildings, does size really matter?” Annoyed by the derision, Chinese censors have got their knickers in a twist telling people to zip it. The Huffington reports that “Weibo (Chinese micro-blogging site) visitors searching for "People's Daily building" are instead met with,"According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, search results cannot be displayed."The Telegraph says that some messages have got through however, like "Of course the national mouthpiece should be imposing." It got worse, because CCTV state's national TV station HQ is nicknamed the "The Big Underpants." So it seems they've made a real balls up of it this time. More about China, people's daily, Communist party, phallic More news from China people s daily Communist party phallic