By RFH Will the UK media be waiting at the airport to greet the British "attempted rapist" (or molester, drunk lecher or whatever you believe) – or will he slip away into obscurity? That’s what we’re left wondering as the book closes on one of the ugliest chapters in foreigner-China relations in recent months, which has included a 100-day foreigner crackdown, a wave of anti-foreigner nationalistic sentiment ...

The Briton currently in police custody over allegations of sexual assault may be in plenty trouble - the Beijing Morning Post says he faces a "trial" in China, and his sorry story has even been reported by Reuters, in the New York Daily News and Kotaku – but so too may be the chaps who assailed him as he lay flat and out for the count on the highway near Xuanwumen on the night of May 8 (not, as Shanghaiist ...

Global Times has followed up on the Xuanwumen incident from Tuesday evening and tracked down several witnesses, many of whom said police instructed them to not speak to media. GT was able to get one key witness on the record though: The first Chinese man in the film seen intervening is a 24-year-old man, surnamed Wu, a security guard in the nearby China Co-op Group Building. "After I grabbed his neck and sa ...

RFH first noticed this. Around the nine-second mark in the video, the girl appears to grab something out of the man's pocket, then (possibly) drops it. Best guess is a wallet. UPDATE, 7:08 pm: As pointed out by a commenter, it could well be a cell phone that she had in her hand from the beginning. What does this mean? Again, very little. She could have been being savvy and wanted his identification. She cou ...

An update of the story earlier today of the man accused of sexually assaulting a Chinese girl in Beijing: There's scant information that's verifiable. For example, a photograph has been offered up on Weibo (above) that purports to show the same man – or at least a man wearing the same trousers and shoes – accompanied by the following wholly unsubstantiated claim: "我次傲，这个社会真是乱了套了，出这些外国贱货，地铁上公开对女性性骚扰，车厢里来回窜，直 ...

Youku video for those in China after the jump. UPDATES below. A lot of anodyne videos pass through my inbox, from travel companies and tourists at the Great Wall and musical performances at bars. Occasionally I'll get a gem. And then, because it's the Internet, occasionally I'll get something like the above -- footage of a foreigner apparently getting beat up because he was sexually assaulting a girl -- in ...