For whatever reason, Yang Rui felt it necessary to apologize to Melissa Chan yesterday, even though this apology comes about five months late, not to mention totally out of the blue. Via Shanghaiist: Yang Rui's post at 12:09 on 16th October: I do not agree with demonizing [other journalists], in mid-May on several different occasions I inadvertently hurt the feelings of former Al Jazeera English's [Melissa ...

You should stop whatever you're doing and go read this. I've copied and pasted all the text to a notepad and saved it on my Desktop. I feel like I have just bottled a rainbow for a rainy day. This man, Yoichi Shimatsu, is possibly the funniest columnist on the face of the earth, and lest you think I'm hyperbolizing, please realize he wrote all of the below, presumably without the help of manatees: "Yang Rui ...

Global Times's Shan Renping used his pulpit to defend Yang Rui today, writing: We think Yang's wording was too harsh. He only stressed the problems of illegal immigrants in China without mentioning the contributions other foreigners have made to the country. He slammed many foreigners, which made it a media sensation and led to misunderstanding among foreigners. No, we don't misunderstand. We're not upset a ...

Last night's Dialogue, embedded after the jump, was about the NATO Summit in Chicago. The two foreign guests were Einar Tangen ("Biz Times columnist & author" [Biz Times is a business paper in Milwaukee]) and Francesco Sisci, Sole 24 Ore columnist. They misspelled Mr. Sisci's name. Maybe it's time to lighten up on the chaps who produce Dialogue, the comically unwatchable show on CCTV... including Yang R ...

Here is the "editor's note" that precedes Yang Rui's first public defense of himself on English-language media: Yang Rui is the Managing Editor and Host of Dialogue on CCTV News, which endeavors to present news about China and the world from a Chinese perspective and in a balanced way. He is responding to an article posted May 18th on the website of Wall Street Journal, which was published without his knowl ...

A weekly column in which Chinese media is taken to the stocks. By TAR Nation What a cunt. This is Yang Rui. You can’t really see it, but I have it on good authority that his tie is the foreskin for his head. You may have glimpsed him on TV. I haven’t. Because if I ever did see him on TV, I would own a TV with a shoe in it. This was strictly out of my sphere of awareness… that is, until the Global Times cove ...

https://twitter.com/ChinaGeeks/statuses/204106358784663552 Until I figure out how to embed javascript, here's the Storify link [UPDATE, 8/7: I've figured out how to embed Storify]. Basically, Yang Rui is upset at China Geeks' Charlie Custer, who has decided to lay low instead of engaging in a true flame war on Sina Weibo with the CCTV host. Yang could use a healthy dose of crow as well, but then we would be ...

Via China Daily (H/T Tom Lasseter) Once again, the full quote: Cut off the foreign snake heads....foreign spies seek out Chinese girls to mask their espionage... that foreign bitch. ...

Yang Rui -- who makes a career out of speaking to foreigners on the show CCTV Dialogue (where I pulled the above image) -- posted this on Sina Weibo (Chinese after jump) on Wednesday evening, translated by WSJ: The Public Security Bureau wants to clean out the foreign trash: To arrest foreign thugs and protect innocent girls, they need to concentrate on the disaster zones in [student district] Wudaokou and ...