Chinese shenanigans

[Russell]

‘Please just go’: thumbs down after Chinese tourists asked to leave Osaka restaurant
Women claim they were discriminated against, but get little support for their video of manager telling them he had ‘never seen such a disgusting way of eating’
scmp.com | Friday, 08 June, 2018
...not uncommon for {Chinese} diners to spit on the floor and pile up bones and rubbish on the table beside them as they ate.

I like the comments section...

I still remember a couple of decades ago being in a new hotel in dong guan.
And one person in the western restaurant using a fork to clean under his big toe nails.
After that i became an expert in using chop sticks...
There is nothing now that bothers me.

[Takechanpoo]

近年来，日本在历史认识问题上也有了一定的进步。继去年NHK电视台播出《731部队的真相》之后，今年5月，日本电视台（NTV）又播出了《南京事件2：检验历史修正主义》，多名日本老兵的证言和翔实的一手材料，还原了侵略战争惨剧，充分证实了当年日军在南京犯下的罪行。日本前首相福田康夫正是在观看此纪录片后，坚定了到侵华日军南京大屠杀遇难同胞纪念馆祭拜之念。借着到上海出席“推动构筑新型国家关系与人类命运共同体——纪念中日和平友好条约缔结40周年”的国际学术研讨会，福田康夫会后专程到访纪念馆，为遇难者献上花圈表示哀悼，亲笔题词“和平东亚”，并强调两国国民不应忘记历史，更须面向未来，齐心协力为创建和平与美好的未来而努力。

"In recent years, Japan has also made certain progress in the issue of historical understanding. Following the broadcast of "The Truth of the 731 Troops" by NHK TV last year, in May of this year, the Japanese TV station (NTV) broadcasted "Nanjing Incident 2: Testing Historical Revisionism", the testimony of many Japanese veterans and the first-hand materials. The tragedy of the aggression war was restored, fully confirming the crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing that year. Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, after watching this documentary, reaffirmed the worship of the memorial to the victims of the Nanjing Massacre in the invasion of China. After attending the International Symposium on "Promoting the Construction of a New Type of State Relations and the Community of Human Destiny - Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan", Mr. Fukuda made a special trip to the memorial hall to express his condolences to the victims. The inscription "Peace East Asia" is written in person and emphasizes that the nationals of the two countries should not forget history, but must also face the future and work together to create a peaceful and beautiful future."
https://3w.huanqiu.com/a/22b871/7FTbFy7PAFG?agt=20

chinese national broadcasting peoples daily publicly praise recent japanese tvs' documentaries.

[Russell]

China’s new diplomacy in Europe has a name: broken porcelain

Two days after Sweden’s election in September, a bizarre statement appeared in English on the website of the Chinese embassy in Stockholm. A “small handful of Swedish forces, media and individuals”, it said, had made “unwarranted claims” of Chinese interference in the Swedish vote. These were “groundless accusations”, and a “malicious attack and smear against China”. The strangest thing of all: no one in Sweden  had the slightest inkling what the statement referred to.

As an expert on China’s official discourse who also studies its influence in Europe, I too struggled to make sense of this storm in a teapot – until a few days later, when a new tempest whirled into view. This time, Sweden noticed. The source of the fresh controversy was an online video that purported to show the “brutal treatment” of three Chinese tourists at a hotel in Stockholm. As I read the angry comments from China’s foreign ministry, it suddenly all made perfect sense. The expressions of outrage were part of a concerted diplomatic strategy of hyperbole and distraction.

In the video, the tourists – identified as Mr Zeng and his two elderly parents – are carried from the hotel by police officers, and deposited on the pavement outside as the son screams in English: “This is killing! This is killing!” The mother sits on the pavement and wails: “Save me!” According to a local newspaper, Aftonbladet, the tourists had arrived at the hotel the night before their scheduled booking and asked to remain in the lobby through the night. They disregarded repeated requests to leave, remaining instead on the lobby sofas. One eyewitness said the police remained calm as the Chinese family grew agitated. The son, this source said, acted particularly oddly, “throwing himself flat on the ground”. Quoted by local media, a Swedish prosecutor later said: “We made the assessment that no crime on the part of the police had been committed.”

The Chinese embassy, in a statement on 15 September, insisted that the tourists had been “brutally abused by the Swedish police”, which had “severely endangered the life and violated the basic human rights of Chinese citizens”.

Many Chinese people who viewed the video clips on domestic social media platforms were furious about what they saw as mistreatment. But others saw something different: a familiar pattern of using over-dramatisation as a means of recourse for real or imagined injustice. Called “porcelain bumping”, or pengci, this pattern became a focus of attention as the hubbub over the Stockholm incident continued in China. Pengci refers to the practice of manufacturing drama to obtain a desired outcome. According to one explanation, the term was coined to describe a technique used by fraudsters who would wait with delicate porcelain vessels outside busy markets and demand payment when these shattered, ostensibly due to the carelessness of others. Now, pengci often refers to the act of throwing oneself into oncoming traffic in order to claim compensation – a practice so common in China that related compilations of clips online are now nearly as ubiquitous as cat videos.

Still, the Chinese embassy in Sweden continued to depict the incident as a grave case of human rights abuse. The foreign ministry’s position was parroted by state-run media. One article shared by a social media account of the People’s Daily alleged that talk of “porcelain bumping”, and other attempts to minimise the Stockholm incident, had been cooked up overseas by Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that the Chinese government has labelled an enemy.

At this point official Chinese outrage had moved on to a skit aired on 21 September on a satirical show by the Swedish national broadcaster, SVT, that made light of the incident. A statement from the Chinese embassy said the skit had “breached the basic moral bottom line of humankind”. Moreover, it had “seriously infringed on Chinese sovereignty and territorial integrity” by projecting a map behind the host that did not show Taiwan and Tibet as an integral part of China.

This came at an already tense time in the bilateral relationship. The Dalai Lama had visited Sweden just days before the video of the tourists appeared. Another sore point was China’s continued imprisonment of a Hong Kong-based bookseller, Gui Minhai, who is a Swedish citizen. Oscar Almén, a researcher at Uppsala University, told Radio Sweden: “The Chinese embassy is now actively trying to deliver a message to the Swedish media and the public.”

That message is a solemn promise to government and society in Europe and beyond: wherever you seek to criticise our policies or forestall our ambitions, we will topple your agenda. We will shatter the porcelain of diplomatic composure and fan the anger of our population with debased facts until every issue you raise is about just one issue – China’s national dignity.

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The pattern is clear. When it comes to foreign criticism of the Chinese government, or to the strategic issues it cares about, we’re all tiptoeing through a china shop now. The danger is that such histrionics could make European governments, universities, scholars and journalists, to remain silent, retreat from issues likely to prompt an outburst. Europe must send a message that it welcomes free, open and calm discussion of all issues, and that it will not suspend its values or the rights of its citizens to appease China’s official bouts of anger. If we refuse to indulge such tactics, China’s government will eventually come to understand what many of its citizens already know – that you don’t win hearts or minds through intimidation.

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If only the Chinese government would be so concerned about the human rights of Chinese citizens inside China.

[Grumpy Gramps]

A show of China's supremacy and survival skills:

[Grumpy Gramps]

No-one screws like China.

You want anything being screwed, China is the place to go.

[Grumpy Gramps]

Chinese court rules that a woman's housework is worth $128 a month

BEIJING — A Chinese court ruled in a divorce case that a wife should get about 50,000 Chinese yuan ($7,700) from her husband in compensation for five years of housework.

The ruling sparked an online debate this week about whether that was a fair price.

That's about $128 a month, or a little more than $1,500 a year. In Chinese currency terms, the payout is about 10,000 yuan a year.

China has said its poorest earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person a year in 2019. That figure is up from 3,416 yuan in 2015.

In this case, brought up in Beijing's southwestern Fangshan district, the wife's household work counted toward intangible property value, Judge Feng Miao told state media, according to a report Monday.

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If I went to China instead of Japan, I could defo afford 2 wives.

[Wage Slave]

Chinese court rules that a woman's housework is worth $128 a month

BEIJING — A Chinese court ruled in a divorce case that a wife should get about 50,000 Chinese yuan ($7,700) from her husband in compensation for five years of housework.

The ruling sparked an online debate this week about whether that was a fair price.

That's about $128 a month, or a little more than $1,500 a year. In Chinese currency terms, the payout is about 10,000 yuan a year.

China has said its poorest earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person a year in 2019. That figure is up from 3,416 yuan in 2015.

In this case, brought up in Beijing's southwestern Fangshan district, the wife's household work counted toward intangible property value, Judge Feng Miao told state media, according to a report Monday.

[...]

If I went to China instead of Japan, I could defo afford 2 wives.

Very true. But are you sure that's a good idea? There are other costs.

[matsuki]

Chinese court rules that a woman's housework is worth $128 a month

BEIJING — A Chinese court ruled in a divorce case that a wife should get about 50,000 Chinese yuan ($7,700) from her husband in compensation for five years of housework.

The ruling sparked an online debate this week about whether that was a fair price.

That's about $128 a month, or a little more than $1,500 a year. In Chinese currency terms, the payout is about 10,000 yuan a year.

China has said its poorest earned an average of 9,808 yuan per person a year in 2019. That figure is up from 3,416 yuan in 2015.

In this case, brought up in Beijing's southwestern Fangshan district, the wife's household work counted toward intangible property value, Judge Feng Miao told state media, according to a report Monday.

[...]

If I went to China instead of Japan, I could defo afford 2 wives.

Twice the pain IMO

[Grumpy Gramps]

True. Is it worth the doubly clean house/car/workshop/office/bicycle? Hard to say.

[matsuki]

True. Is it worth the doubly clean house/car/workshop/office/bicycle? Hard to say.

Judging by what I hear from "Sultanates" in SA, "better to hire maid, you can still hit that and if they displease you, they are gone!"