Sick, Corrupt, Racist, Paranoid, Xenophobic? ? The Chinese Government Speaks

Robert recently wrote about the sometimes xenophobic media in South Korea, however, China has beaten Korea (figuratively) again, in this category.

Yang Rui, A leading Chinese TV host on state-sponsored CCTV posted to his blog a scathing attack on foreigners that is unmatched in scope by any previous attack and he did mention Korea as well:

Cut off the foreign snake heads. People who can?t find jobs in the US and Europe come to China to grab our money, engage in human trafficking and spread deceitful lies to encourage emigration . . . Foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage and pretend to be tourists while compiling maps and GPS data for Japan, Korea and the West, . . . ?We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al Jazeera?s Beijing bureau. We should shut up those who demonise China and send them packing.?

Yang went on to recommend ?China?s public security bureau to concentrate its efforts on the Beijing ?disaster zones? of Wudaokou, where many students live, and Sanlitun, a bar district and shopping area popular with expatriates.? (cite) ?Fortunately, ?A significant portion of the Chinese reactions were critical of Yang. ?This is how the Boxer Rebellion started,? ran one comment on Weibo. Several other posts referred to the antiforeigner unrest of early 20th Century China.?

All of this comes on the heals of an attack upon a Chinese woman, by a British national, that was captured on video and a netizen video of a Russian Cellist, who was propping his feet up on a train (he was subsequently fired by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra because of this incident). Per the BBC, regarding the cellist:

The video of the incident ? which has been viewed by millions of people in China ? showed him with his bare feet up on the seat in front. When the woman objected to his feet touching her head, he apparently responded with a barrage of sarcastic comments and insults in fluent Chinese.
Her response was to throw water bottles at him.
Chinese media have reported that the train guard told the woman to ?forget it ? he is an artist?.

I must confess, that sort of dialog is pretty funny in itself (the guy is also a jerk, IMHO) but the video has become tender for the sort of anti-foreigner bonfire that is often sponsored by the Chinese Government.

Despite the orchestrated campaign against foreigners (including Koreans), the largest problem faced by China comes not from foreign sources but from its own government and how they will stoop to anything for power and control. ?That is a problem that can only be solved by the will of the Chinese people.

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