Over the Xinjiang concentration camp issue, the mainland and the West claim to boycott the concentration camp inmates manufacturing cotton brand companies quarrel. In addition to the famous phrase “do not eat this set” to cheer up the country, the Foreign Ministry spokesman very eloquently stressed: China’s market is here, we do not need to specialize in what coercion, but one thing is certain, now the Chinese people do not allow some foreigners while eating Chinese rice, while smashing the Chinese bowl.
Eating rice and smashing pots and bowls, do not eat this set to eat that plate, the Chinese vocabulary of oral Culture is remarkable, linked to the memory of hunger and escape from three thousand years of agricultural society. This, two hundred years of history of the American people do not understand, the United States of several civil war all not to oral gastrointestinal reasons for the outbreak.
So it extends to the so-called War Wolf diplomacy. In fact, this is not new: during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, the Hong Kong government arrested three journalists from the Hong Kong Economic Journal and the leftist riots in Hong Kong, which inspired the Red Guards to burn down the British chargé d’affaires in China, beat British diplomats, and arrest British journalist Gray in August of the same year, causing a major storm.
This “hostage diplomacy” is described in the book “Experiences of China”, a memoir by the later ambassador to China, Collyer.
Collier wrote a calm, objective and elegant account of the War Wolf incident in 1967, including his own humiliating beating. Recalling it years later, Colida’s nonchalant, uncomplaining, and uncomplaining account, written in detail without emotional adjectives, demonstrates the historian’s narrative style.
“The crowd formed a circle, and I was set up on a soapbox in order to be beaten down again and again. Two men clasped my arms, another was in front of me and hit me in the stomach. Others rushed forward and raised their fists in front of me, asking me if I thought the Chinese people were easy to bully. I didn’t ask, because there was no answer to that kind of question. Someone in the crowd ordered me to shout long live Chairman Mao, but I kept quiet, and fortunately that kind of instruction did not enter the force.”
Colida found several fellow officers already in the compound being guarded by the PLA. “We bowed our heads and talked for a while. It was a dangerous scene, but it was a relief to be out of harm’s way for a while. I remember reading Weigier’s verse: ‘Perhaps one day this variety will be a pleasant memory.’ This is Weigier’s famous line remembering the sailors who returned to the ship years later after the wreck. It was the encouragement of a classical master.”
Colida’s English is precise, but rather uninteresting and slightly dry. Only his knowledge of China is profound, and it is rare that, even with this experience of violence, he does not advocate that Mrs. Detroit be tough on Deng Xiaoping over Hong Kong. Some have accused this type of Chinese-tongue of selling out Hong Kong, but Collyer is more long-term minded, and perhaps thoroughly aware that Hong Kong, after the recovery of sovereignty, is simply a piece of meat on China’s chopping block. In retrospect today, it is not weakness, but at the height of Darwinism, everything has been seen through.
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