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With China, that might not be true given the recent unprompted stabbings of foreigners. US professors on an exchange program: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/
by bobthepanda 2y ago
With China, that might not be true given the recent unprompted stabbings of foreigners.
US professors on an exchange program: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna156485 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna156485
A schoolbus of Japanese children: https://www.ft.com/content/954dd160-3102-477f-b816-1a1769f0a628 https://www.ft.com/content/954dd160-3102-477f-b816-1a1769f0a...
- imp0cat 2y agoIn China, everyone can tell you are a foreigner because of the ethnical/racial differencies.
- ClumsyPilot 2y agoThese seem like isolated freak events in a big country, a bit like saying USA is dangerous because of school shoitings
- bobthepanda 2y agoIt’s hardly a secret that the Chinese government stokes nationalist sentiment as a useful way to get legitimacy and distract from domestic issues. The problem with doing this is that you start flirting with the possibility of violence. This isn’t even the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_anti-Japanese_demonstrations_in_China?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_anti-Japanese_demonstrati... And the government is well aware of the dangers given that the opinions that they need to rein it in come from the same state media that promotes nationalist sentiment. Xi’s China in particular is far more nationalist than its predecessors.