Taylor Swift is ‘walking GDP’: Shanghai urged to shake off curbs on foreign stars

Taylor Swift is ‘walking GDP’: Shanghai urged to shake off curbs on foreign stars

Advisers to the Shanghai government have called for restrictions on international performers to be relaxed, while likening superstars like Taylor Swift to “walking GDP”. China’s financial hub has hosted many large-scale, commercial performances in recent years, but “it lacks stars that are weighty, internationally influential or truly appealing to young people”, the counsellors’ office of … Read more