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In the comic they didn't need to label the wall at all, IMHO. What happened to the lost art of subtlety. That label is just there because the author thinks the audience is too dumb to recognize the great wall of china.
Subtlety in political comics? Man old political comics had to label nearly everything.
Dunno where you are but that's definitely not true of all french/European political comics/caricatures. Some of them can be pretty damn abstract and you need to be keeping up with the news closely to understand them. Of course there's some that use labels too but I think it's considered like a bit of a copout.
I'm in the US. A lot of older political cartoons look something like this: