“This is spine-tingling and hair-raising stuff” says Shanghaiist.

Global Voices Online has sum up some Chinese comments as well.

I don’t remember having sung such song at school, seems that some Chinese pupils do. Here is an excerpt of the transliteration from the China Digital Times:

Lead: Earthquakes, shifting back and forth like the positions of Sarkozy, with his dirty tricks, trying to shake the great China

Lead: Did China retreat?

All: No. The Shenzhou-7 launched. We are victorious!

Lead: Pathetic Europe will never stop the insurmountable force of our great dynasty

All: Just the aftershocks from the earthquake would destroy France!

Watch the video. I am sure Sarkozy will love it !

There is still something of the petulant 3-year-old here, brazenly pursuing something that is decidedly not in her [China] interests. It illustrates the fact that China’s foreign policy, its strategy and its world view are anything but mature.

First, it’s not like China doesn’t need friends right now. It’s economy is in crisis. Over the weekend President Hu Jintao told a gathering of Communist Party members that the global crisis could undermine the country’s economy and threaten the party’s capacity to rule China. Europe is China’s largest market. But the Europeans are restless. European businesses want to know why they sell more stuff to Switzerland than to China. Cancel a summit and these questions will only grow louder.

So why did Hu really blow off Sarko, Pomfret asks?

The stated Chinese reason in this case bears scrutiny because of its brazen honesty. According to wire service reports, Qin Gang, a spokesman at the China’s foreign ministry, acknowledged to reporters that France was being held to a higher standard than, say, the United States, whose leaders routinely huddle with the Dalai Lama and barely suffer a slap on the wrist.

Chinese tea-leaf readers have focused on another reason: They’ve wheeled out the old bogeyman of Chinese political calculus, claiming that unidentified “hard-liners” were behind the cancellation. That’s rich.

The reality is that China just screwed this one up.

I am sure Sarkozy will feel less lonely after this…

Le Monde: Do you think the China-EU summit has been canceled because of the Tibetan question only ?

Jean-Vincent Brisset: The Dali Lama is just a pretext. China is focusing on France but the real target of all this is the unity of the Europeans countries. Chinese politicians think they can manage bilateral relations – except with the United States – but they know how much harder it is to manager multilateral relations. Since the French obtained an embargo on weapon trade in 1989, China tries to hamper the EU, because of its capacity to impose economic quotas, currency reevaluation, etc. They identified Nicolas Sarkozy as the weak point. Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel both received the Dalai Lama or did not assist the Olympics opening ceremonial.

Le Monde: France is the weak point then…

Jean-Vincent Brisset: It is, historically. When I was doing my time in the military, there was a saying, “Keep harassing one guy only, you will have one guy only yelling”. This is exactly what China is doing, as France is currently leading the UE Presidency.

But this attitude dates back to long ago, since French diplomats always had a deep admiration for China and and a total outdated understanding of this country. French believe that by being kind to people you can be paid the same in return. Amongst the countries which played a preeminent role in history, France has always been the weakest. France is considered as a female country and as the same time, China does respect powerful nations only.

Le Monde:The Olympic torch incident in Paris doesn’t help as well…

Jean-Vincent Brisset: France has been apologizing only since the beginning of this affair, following the chinese diplomatic tradition. Historically, a vassal State was submitting to China by offering presents. This is exactly what we did by sending Raffarin offering a present to Beijing.

Le Monde: How this was interpreted by Chinese ?

Jean-Vincent Brisset: To them, it is very clear ! France is a vassal State. This will be very difficult to catch up.

Le Monde: How to regain confidence and trust between the two countries ?

Jean-Vincent Brisset: Fortunately, a lot of European people begin to understand China is not such a friendly country. It’s a selfish country maintaining rough relationships with the rest of the world, and we should keep our distance with it. China is testing the power of the EU, not France. Should China gain to imposing economical retorsion measures toward France without any EU reactions, it would be a victory. On the contrary, if France puts the EU in front of the battle, this affair can find a smooth settlement. But if the EU shows some weakness, China could step then towards each of the European counties, except the UK which will always resist.

Ouch ! I told you this guy was rough… Interesting times indeed, let’s see what’s next for French.

Apparently, David was chocked and he says it. Here are a few excerpts, buckle-up :

I can honestly say that I have rarely if ever been mistreated in China. I don’t count the arguments over quality or the multiple times I’ve been the target of random theft. I mean, I’ve hardly ever been treated badly by my Chinese hosts in terms of politeness and acceptance.

But that changed this last week. Three separate experiences have really damaged my opinion of the depth of Chinese hospitality. First is the excoriating, racist and downright scary language that is being thrown around in China right now towards foreigners in general and the US and France in particular. From actual riots to virtual (internet) lynchings, from racial comments vocalized without knowing I can speak Chinese to outright bullying and intimidation of foreigners shopping at Carefoure. China is moving farther from its goal of “one world” than it has in more than a couple of decades.

But today is different. I’ve been saying for almost 15 years that China has national-size insecurity complex. They’ve had it for at least 30 years (if not 100 years), but now you see it daily. They want to be welcomed onto the world stage as a player, but can’t handle the heat from the spotlight. They want the world to think that they have arrived, but expect a free pass for their xenophobic view of domestic and world history. They have the glass and metal buildings and freeways and factories, but except for cheap labor, what inside is really “Chinese?” As one client of mine, who recently came to China, asked: “What do the Chinese believe in other than money?” Well the superiority of (presently constituted) China and the Chinese race, for one.

China claims that it’s not their fault they have a bad attitude; that the world has hated and abused China for the last 100+ years and the world is now scared of the rise of China. I say bullshit to both. Sure China was colonized, what country other than England was not?! Africa has a much worse history of colonialism and abuse by the West (and now by China) than does China, but the rampant racism and love-it-or-leave-it attitude doesn’t exist there.

The arguments by Chinese to support their racism are not only conflicting but weak. They claim that Westerns don’t understand China, and at the same time claim that the West is trying to split China because we know that all Chinese dynasties split from within rather than fell from without. They claim that the West doesn’t want a powerful China, yet the financial grow (FDI) has, up until the last few years ALL come from either the west or other Asian Democracies.

Now back down to a personal and business level. First, I am acutely aware that I am a minority in China. Maybe I stand out as a target, but I also get some special treatment because of my different looks (and presumed higher economic status). This means that most Chinese are fantastic hosts and overly polite. It also means that my prices are higher than local would be charged for almost everything in China that is not scanned at a register—and yes, I was here when they still had official “foreign” pricing so I know its relatively better but the attitude is still pervasive.

Secondly, recently, being a foreigner has been, to be honest, at bit scary. Crime against foreigners is high. Anti foreign sentiment is rising fast. Now in China I’m not even a “normal” person (of course not special), now I’m “bad” and I’m “them” and sometimes I even get called “French.”

So why scary now? Because the government may not be able to or willing to control it as the hype for the 0lympics draws near—how do you shut down nationalism in the next 100 days as the 8 year hype of the 0lympics finally crescendos? And instead of shutting it down (and some chats are closed, I realize) they are instead telling Chinese to just not talk with or share “sensitive” information with foreigners—yes, the new official line is to “exclude” anyone that is not Chinese from conversations about real issues. Or just don’t giv them visa’s any more. Welcome (some of you) to China, please shut up, spend your money and then go home as quickly as possible. Nice.

Drawing a line in the sand and saying that “all foreigners are untrustworthy” is a scary position for a government to take—especially when that government has for 50 years also promoted the idea of Chinese racial/national superiority. (At least the US government abuses everyone, citizens and non, equally in our post 9/11 fear of foreigners.) If you don’t think that this is a big deal, look at the crowds supporting the torch relay in Australia, New Zealand or South Korea—do you see anyone supporting the torch that is not Chinese? NONE.

I shared with is a long-time China hand and lawyer friend of mine here in China and he said: “as I tell people who only see the soft side of China, do not be fooled. This is an authoritarian state. It will get less authoritarian only when the citizens insist on something different. It has nothing to do with being a world power and it has nothing to do with us foreign guests.”

if you don’t think that events unfolding now will affect your business in China, then you are not fully aware of who you’re working with in China.

Yup, David was clearly upset… Read the full article here.

“Do you critic China ? You have never been to China…”

“You live in China and you critic China ? You haven’t lived long enough in China…”

“You spent your life in China and you still critic China ? You’re a bad Chinese…”

Guess in which of these three I fill in…