As China prepares to celebrate the annual lunar new year, that country’s most important holiday, a controversy has erupted over an emblem or a logo that CCTV got designed for its 2026 Spring Festival Gala television event.

The emblem on a red background shows four gold-coloured galloping horses (2026 being the Year of the Horse in the Chinese zodiac) rendered in a traditional decorative style.

The hitch is a US-based video and social media platform operated by Ganjingworld Corporation, says the logo resembles the four tanks in Beijing’s Tiananman Square during the horrific crackdown in 1989.

Controversial Comparisons Emerge

In a programme it runs called Old Beijing Teahouse , the anchors claimed the logo looked less like galloping horses and more like tanks moving forward. That the

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