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Tourists take pictures in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on September 6, 2016. September 9, 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong. / AFP / FRED DUFOUR (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)

Tourists take pictures in front of a giant portrait of Mao Zedong at the gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on September 6, 2016.
September 9, 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong. / AFP / FRED DUFOUR        (Photo credit should read FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)