Interesting piece in the Washington Post about the state media’s “foreigner bashing” starting to become not just ineffective but counterproductive in the social networking world growing in China:
“In China, there’s a strange mentality, which is — we always need to create an imaginary enemy to feel safe,” said Li Chengpeng, an independent columnist. But, he added, “I know people around me, not only intellectuals and entrepreneurs, but ordinary people working in restaurants and communities. What they care about is not ‘foreign devils,’ but their real lives — sunshine, clean air, food and freedom.”
The Beijing Daily newspaper has discovered as much each time it has tried to stir up popular sentiment against U.S. Ambassador Gary Locke. After Chen, the blind activist, turned up at the U.S. Embassy, the Beijing Daily and other state-controlled newspapers in the capital launched a coordinated editorial attack on Locke, accusing him of, among other things, pretending to be an ordinary guy by flying economy class, staying in cheap hotels, carrying a backpack and paying for his Starbucks coffee with a coupon. All that, the Beijing Daily suggested, reflected an insidious American plot to curry favor with the masses.
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That didn’t stop the paper from demanding this week that Locke reveal his assets, presumably to prove his ordinariness. The U.S. Consulate in Shanghai then posted the publicly disclosed assets of both Locke and President Obama. The result: another backlash, with Netizens asking why U.S. officials made so little when even Chinese provincial party bosses are wealthy and never disclose their net worth.
