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An American blogger who stumbled upon a near flawless fake Apple Store in China<\/a> has become an Internet sensation after her post went viral and triggered a feisty debate about piracy in the world’s second largest economy.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old, who goes by the name “BirdAbroad”<\/strong>, said her story about the fake store in the southwestern city of Kunming had attracted nearly 1 million hits over the past three days after it caught the imagination of the world’s media.<\/p>\n

A search on Google showed nearly 1,000 media outlets picked up the story<\/strong> and pictures of the fake store, with the topic one of the most talked-about subjects on Twitter and Chinese Internet sites.<\/p>\n

“I originally put the post up not because it was news that Western brands get ripped off in China<\/strong>, but because these Apple stores had taken the fakery up a serious notch to the point where it’s practically a work of art in itself,” the blogger, who works for an international health organization, told Reuters in an email.<\/p>\n

She wrote in the post that she found the store while strolling down a street with her husband a few blocks from their apartment.<\/p>\n

Complete with the white Apple logo, wooden tables and cheery staff who appeared to genuinely believe they worked for the iPhone maker<\/strong>, the store looks every bit like Apple Stores found all over the world.<\/p>\n

But Apple has no stores in Kunming and only 13 authorized resellers in the city.<\/p>\n

“I did actually email the blog post to Steve Jobs when I first put it up, purely for fun. Sufficed to say, he has not responded,” said the blogger, who declined to be named.<\/p>\n

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