Sonagi — Man identified by Dan Bielefeld as Moon Gook-han with the North Korean refugee group. He stated that he was either very brave or very crazy — or something to that effect — to be chanting slogans while surrounded by Chinese. Bielefeld took a photo of him. It shows he wasn’t crazy. He was playing to the media as there were perhaps five — or maybe more — with cameras trained on him directly in front of him. However, the other photo has the newsmen cropped out — giving the impression he was surrounded by the Chinese and all alone.

What happened to him after this event? Was he hurt?

http://bunnyhugs.org/2008/05/01/ugly-nationalistic-chinese-demonstration-in-auckland/

Best line from the story:
“The marshal told me not to go back into Aotea Square because it was not safe for ‘New Zealanders’. I guess he really meant ‘non-Chinese people’.”

What’s unusual about this man’s experience is that some of the unruly participants were middle-aged. While I was in China, I never saw the Chinese behave like what we’re seeing recently around the world. Part of it is just mob mentality, but it seems that the collective mood of the world’s Chinese has become stridently defensive in the run-up to the Olympics. This attitude comes through loud and clear in a number of forums in different languages. I hear and see the same ideas, the same themes repeated over and over by the Chinese. The Chinese government isn’t distributing a sheet of talking points, but rather, ideas are planted in the media and in internet forums, and grow into “the truth” through content sharing and personal conversations. To a certain extent, Chinese feelings of being picked on are valid, but now they are becoming defensive to the point that any foreign criticism of China is China-bashing, and they are becoming aggressive in defending China.

It’s time to restrict Chinese immigrants. I don’t want to make the number of disloyal Americans grow.

I could not agree less. I’ve served with loyal Chinese-Americans in the Army, and there are loyal Chinese-American readers and commenters here, and I’m sure their loyalty yields to no one else’s. I don’t object to making new immigrants swear loyalty oaths and renounce foreign alliances. We do that now. I also think it’s reasonable to follow up those oaths with some reasonable investigation of whether the prospective citizen is affiliated with, say, the CCP. But there are traitors of all ethnicities: Jonathan Pollard, Robert Hanson, Aldrich Ames, and Robert Kim to name a few. Absolutely none of this needs to be linked to ethnicity. Chinese are fully capable of being loyal Americans and making extraordinary contributations to our society.

That said, I do think that universities need to tighten the restrictions on the access of some foreign students — who make no profession of loyalty to this country — to sensitive and dual-use technology.

At some point, (perhaps sooner than later!), for all of their apparent material success, the great Chinese nation will confront the essential illegitimacy of their governance. The toxic political waste that is the legacy of Mao Zedong & Company is surely at its worst abroad in the existence of the Kim family regime in northern Korea. A matter of sequence: will the portrait that still defaces Tiananmen Square disappear, or will the Dear Imbiber in Pyongyang meet his due first?

Thanks also to Prof. Lankov, that he continues to keep his wonderfully well tuned antennae monitoring Korea north of the Imjin.

Sonagi as always great information and links. A problem I often found with Koreans was a lack of critical thinking skills in regards to what they read in the media and especially the internet and it appears the Chinese are even worse if they believe the nonsense coming from some of these people on the internet like this Hitler fan.