China does not know quite what to make of Charlie Sheen.

The Chinese Communist newspaper Global Times, is running an amazing op-ed by a person named Hao Leifeng listing all the ways in which Sheen is a "classic example of the difference in Western and Eastern values and norms."

Indeed. From the piece:

"Sheen goes on television and boasts that he has two girlfriends, who both sleep in the same bedroom. Is he too poor to set up his wives and mistresses in different houses?"

Also: "He ignored his own father's advice to keep quiet, who was once the president of the US. Sheen is a disgrace, unfilial to his father and his fatherland."

The website Shanghaist seems to think the op-ed is a brilliant joke that somehow made it past censors. And it does read like a written version of a smart NMA video.

Either way, if you weren't American you'd probably be trying to distance yourself from him too.

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