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Rebel Pepper

In this cartoon, Xi Jinping of China, sits on the side of a bed, ready to lay down next to a sleeping Mao Zedong.

Chinese political cartoonist Rebel Pepper finds more artistic freedom in the US

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Rebel Pepper fled China for Japan and then Washington, DC, to escape charges of subversion because of his cartoons.

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