I think this is what happens pretty much everywhere. People just carry on. News media gives us a rather distorted image of how things stand. I remember when li

I think this is what happens pretty much everywhere. People just carry on. News media gives us a rather distorted image of how things stand. I remember when living in Beijing during the Kosovo bombing campaign in 1999. The Chinese naturally took great offence for deaths in their embassy. CNN was day after day showing video of violent anti-US demonstrations outside US embassy in Beijing. Foreigners were warned of sticking their nose out. I took a walk in the Sanlitun embassy area. The closest thing to a riot I saw was an overweight woman walking her poodle. The demonstrations were well organised in front of the cameras, without causing disruption elsewhere. They were mostly over in a day; CNN just kept replaying the same footage for a week. Chinese colleagues were clearly angry, but they also just carried on, as always.