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A newspaper published by China's ruling Communist Party is blasting the latest Guns N' Roses album as an attack on the Chinese nation.

Delayed since recording began in 1994, "Chinese Democracy" hit stores in the U.S. on Sunday, although it is unlikely to be sold legally in China, where censors maintain tight control over films, music and publications.

In an article Monday headlined "American band releases album venomously attacking China," the Global Times said unidentified Chinese Internet users had described the album as part of a plot by some in the West to "grasp and control the world using democracy as a pawn."

The album "turns its spear point on China," the article said.

China's Foreign Ministry did not respond to faxed questions about the article, although a spokesman speaking on routine condition of anonymity said: "We don't need to comment on that."

Spokesmen for the Culture Ministry and State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, government bodies that regulate album releases and performances, could not be reached for comment.

The Global Times article referred only to the title of the album and not to specific song lyrics. The record's title track makes a reference to the Falun Gong meditation movement that was banned by China as an "evil cult" and warns "if your Great Wall rocks blame yourself," in an apparent message to the country's authoritarian government.

Songs from the album could be heard on Internet sites such as YouTube and the band's MySpace page on Monday and it was not immediately possible to tell whether China's Internet monitors were seeking to block access to it.

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Fullmetal

Chinese Democracy is the only really good song..

Leviarel

Wow cool... they manage to understand the lyrics.
I am way behind time.

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†Ð£MØц

Axl Rose could totally beat the shit out of China. No doubt.

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cinderboy

tbh, its kinda asking -for-a-beating if you use a country's name in a song and then kinda give the country a side-punch... and its china, the country which hardcore sensors almost all forms of media.

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blake414super

Good, i wish they sensored GnR here, since they are absolutely terrible and am disapointed they made a new album.

IMO.

They blow and suck.

KellionBane

Only if he replace both of his legs with giant heroin needles.

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Cloud13

It's amazing how, suddenly, China takes notice. Considering that this has been the title for what, like 10 years?

I haven't had time to get to listen to the album, so I'm not going to say anything in reference to that.

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