Oh yeah, the above guy is a Russian award winning cellist for the Beijing Symphony. His video took over after people got bored with the other one.

shanghaiist.com/2012/05/17/oleg-vedernikov-apologises.php

Yang Rui is a journalist, college educated in Shanghai and UK, and award winner. Scary huh?

www3.ftchinese.com/[...]

He can talk about a fellow journalist who Chinese American like this..."We kicked out that foreign bitch and closed Al-Jazeera's Beijing bureau."

So he was educated in the UK? What a hypocrite.

@crazy.laowai
To understand your enemy - you must learn how they think. At one time, Europe's and especially Britain's colonial designs on China make them a formidable enemy. Studying in China is a natural extension of Chinese military strategy.

Actually, I'm more concerned about the misquoting of the Boxer Rebellion by incensed apparently domestic commenters - the rebellion was a nationalist backlash response to the opium trade and general foreign oppression. To the uneducated at the time - ANY foreigner represented that illicit trade and all foreign oppression.

Generally, today's expats are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Most expats come to China because of an interest in the people and or culture. Some seek business opportunities either here - or dealing with Chinese businesses and tourism in their home country. Of course there's the occasional moron - China has lots of those to spare, so they naturally would see no reason to import more of these public nuisances.

China's nationalistic fervor is targeted more at foreign governments and their continued misconceptions or perhaps conscious anti-China propaganda. China has focused and continues to focus on domestic stability, prosperity, harmony, and sustainability, while concurrently learning how to become a global citizen. Multiple invasions of the middle east and destruction of the OPEC choke on fossil fuels, while a benefit to China - is definitely not part of their global strategy.

Hypocritical is the US continuously pointing the human rights finger at China (although the treatment of the blind activist was obviously criminal). China has lifted a significant portion of its population out of poverty, while the US continues to slide into poverty.

In my opinion - most global leaders still behave like schoolyard bullies - trying to implement their various foreign policies for personal gain - essentially behaving like strong-arm gangsters with utter disrespect for a nation's sovereignty or a people's culture. Historically, most cultures and people groups evolve with either prosperity or desperate poverty. It's probably easier to advise countries based on mutual prosperity than an adversarial relationship. But as usual, I digress.

So, do foreigners have anything to fear - only if the government allows this to get out of hand and turn into mindless mob thug attacks. I don't see this kind of behavior as being in China's best national interest.

Also - we should be aware that the major CCTV reporters are privy to significantly more information (and outright gossip) than we mushrooms. The journalist was expelled Chinese style for a reason. With the same breath we fear mob backlash based on propaganda, yet we criticize that same engine that is used to hold this populous society together. We've all seen how social media can create firestorms around the country based on false information.

Should be interesting to see how the government deals with this reporter. I suspect he'll be privately censured and reprimanded. It's one thing, as a public figure, to voice a private criticism and opinion. It's quite another to put it into print that is disseminated around the world (who needs wikileaks when you can self destruct all by yourself).

Please check these two links:

www.globalpost.com/[...]

whatson.echinacities.com/[...]

This is part of the "three illegalities" policy that began in China last March.
(the following two links are in Chinese)
finance.qq.com/a/20120515/008131.htm

finance.ifeng.com/roll/20120522/6496681.shtml

CCTV host Yang Rui responds to online uproar
www.globaltimes.cn/[...]

Looks like the mountains weren't high enough for Chengdu...the emperor is coming.

"Chengdu, the largest sub-provincial metropolis and provincial capital of Sichuan, said it will launch a similar plan by the end of this year, Wang Lin, deputy director of Chengdu exit and entry administration bureau, confirmed."

Yang Rui turning to Chinese dictionaries, hahahaha. He has more in common with foreigners than he thinks.

"The more serious part of the accusations against me is the mischaracterization of what I said in Chinese; "Po Fu" if you look it up on Jin Shan Ci Ba, one of the most popular Chinese translation sites, and A Chinese-English Dictionary, the third edition published by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in January, 2010, means "shrew."

So when Yang Rui's wife is being troublesome, he no doubt tells her to stop being such a 泼妇 :)

yes, saw this on "China Smack", by guess is Yang Rui will get promoted now, to president of CCTV 9/ news.
Always thought "Dialogue" was rubbish any way with the "loaded questions" always thrown to the Laowia.

But at least everyone know his true colours now and I think "that b#@&H" is a much better journalist than him.
BTW, isn't his daughter in school in the USA ?

TIC

泼妇 = Shrew? I am still laughing. I suggest Yang Rui should lock his computer away after a Baijiu dinner.