I doubt if Yao share the same feeling with you, neither Jazz nor CYPT CYPT is sth like Boy Scouts in China. That's why even everyone will find out wearing a red tie is such a silly thing when they grow up, few will bash it follow your political logic.
That second photo is BEGGING to be photoshopped. Probably involving any species of feces-flinging monkeys.
YUP.....up till now, Yao Ming still wears the red tie, the way a young Communist Youth Pioneer did..... This is how he looked on his annual online chat with the children on June 1 Children Day.....(Photos taken back June 2004)