See here a rather disturbing story. The (real) security people, busy with looking at the Internet, are usually too late. It would be extremely sad for China if this trend continues. Personally I encountered little of this, but I did see very unpleasant attitudes from two types of Chinese people: private security people (thugs) working at buildings and night clubs, and the hateful “new rich youth” driving around in expensive cars and spending money like crazy.
I wonder if China Daily would dare to talk about this, of course NOT. Now just wait for a Chinese to be beaten up like that in New York. Wait, better even: Chinese guy gets beaten up by 3 foreigners in Sanlitun. Millions of angry netextremists would jump on it, demonstrations, attack on embassies.
Read the full story:
http://www.chinaexpat.com/blog/ernie/2009/06/16/foreigners-not-so-welcome.html
Ernie’s blog 16 June 09
He had no clue he was in danger when the beer bottle smashed into his face. He had been about to step into another cab ride home after another night’s drinking at Sanlitun, Beijing’s infamous bar street. No posturing, no threats, no gut-wrenching realization he had a fight on his hands. Just the impact of cold hard glass.
As he went down, his assailant and two other Chinese men set to finishing the job. Kicks and punches, mostly kicks, to all the places raging instinct strikes for: head, ribs, and groin. It was late, not quite one in the morning, but on Sanlitun Street that still left a clutch of witnesses at hand. Not one, foreign or Chinese, interfered. Not until that tacit moment when the attackers had spent themselves, grave injury done, did another foreigner wade in to push them off.
But the victim’s night of horror was just beginning. Helped to a hospital, he learned in a delirium of pain that no medical treatment would be forthcoming until all proper papers and proof of payment had been verified. Eleven hours passed until doctors finally attended him and assessed the damage: a shattered cheekbone, nose broken in two places, a welter of assorted fractures and contusions. He came to after surgery with two steel plates holding his head together.
The police are never far off at Sanlitun; they know better. And the assailants, compromised by a lack of planning, were soon rounded up. Before being hauled off to jail, they were asked what had prompted such a brutal assault. After all, they hadn’t taken any money. “No reason.”
Once out of the hospital, he dutifully filed a report at his embassy, to learn that he was the fourth of his countrymen to make such a claim in the last week. But by no means is this a matter of Germans being singled out. The diversity of victims, and the spike in violent assaults over roughly the past year, bear the marks of unreasoning, unspecific anti-foreign backlash.