Its most controversial days are likely behind it, but we have one more update on Beijing Snacks, which some have taken to calling "the most racist restaurant in Beijing" thanks to its owner pasting a "no dog... no Japanese et al." sign on the front window. RFH recently visited with friends, including a Japanese man named Tomo (initial plans to bring a dog were scrapped). Here's what he had to say about the ...

The Beijing restaurant manager, a man surnamed Wang, who doesn't want to serve customers from countries engaged in maritime disputes with China has removed this fairly racist sign from his Houhai establishment. He took it down Thursday by his own volition, according to AFP, but has "refused to apologise." ...

So, it seems that some people have yet to fully understand why racism is a bad thing. With tensions in the South China Sea remaining high, we're still being treated to bizarre examples of unhealthy nationalism. The latest can be found here in Beijing: the proprietors of a snack shop in Houhai called Beijing Snacks [百年卤者] have put up a notice refusing customers from countries engaged in maritime disputes wit ...

According to AFP, more than 20 people in Hanoi have been arrested today for anti-China protests. About 200 protesters waved banners and chanted, "Down with China's aggression!" A similar demonstration was broken up in Ho Chi Minh City. AFP: Vietnam, which has begun exploring for oil in what it claims as its territorial waters, last week issued a rebuke to Beijing over claims that Chinese fishing boats had s ...

Back on August 24, weeks before people would double down on Diaoyu Islands senselessness, four protesters took to the streets in Shenzhen to urge "civilized patriotism, rational Japanese resistance." Three of them wore swimwear -- bikinis for the two girls, briefs for the man -- and attracted attention as much for their message as their appearance. We posted about it here, with a video. It was only a matter ...

No two protests are ever the same, as the above video will show. In Changsha, people flip cars. In Dali, they sing the national anthem. In Qingdao, they chant. (Actually, they sing and chant everywhere, but you know what I mean.) There are a lot of banners that read "Japanese Devils," a term that originates from Japan's invasion of China last century. Other slogans are less kind. What's striking, however, i ...

We've gone way beyond civil disobedience. Who are the Chinese attacking? Chinese-owned Japanese restaurants, and Japanese people who may call China home, and now journalists. It is, as the proverb goes, shitting on your carpet to spite the neighbor. We've seen this line of indiscriminate violence in this country before -- it was called the Cultural Revolution. It was bloody terrible. I realize that the gove ...

In a cab yesterday evening, the first words the driver said to me were, "They gonna fight?" I was confused and signaled as such. He nodded at the radio. A broadcaster was in the middle of reporting on the Diaoyu Islands -- sold on Tuesday to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's administration from their Japanese owners -- and that's when I realized he really meant, "Might they go to war?" "Nah, I don't think so, ...

Four protesters in Shenzhen on Tuesday afternoon came up with a creative way of voicing discontent over the Japanese claims on the Diaoyu islands. With bayonets between their thighs -- and three of them in swimwear -- they chanted things like, "Civilized patriotism, rational Japanese resistance." I think what they mean is: don't do this. Youku video for those in China after the jump. ...

Save the lecture about historical context. We're talking about rocks. Uninhabited rocks. If indeed there's black gold inside the set of rocks known as the Diaoyu Islands, governments should mine 'em together and split the profit, as was proposed once upon a time ago. But nooo, that would be too elementary a solution. We have to act like children, because we are, in the grand scheme of things. Children whose ...

Happy Fourth of July, everyone. I think that's essentially what YouTube user blackredmedia is trying to say. Wait... ...

Was just a matter of time before the nationalistic sentiment on the streets of Hong Kong spilled over into daily life, right? Posted yesterday, this Sina video depicts a young Hong Kong man with a Bruno Mars hairstyle cursing out a mainland woman and her daughter on the subway. Judging by that description alone, you wouldn't be surprised if I told you it's been watched more than 1 million times, would you? ...

I imagine a Chinese cadre seeing this is having heart palpitations at the moment. The picture comes from the site Hong Wrong, which is where you should be paying attention if you're interested in developments in Hong Kong's handover protests. ...