Some of my favorite headlines: <insert preferred party here> insults all of the Chinese by… The latest affront is the sale of plunder by Imperialist French war criminals and the dilettante charlatans at Christie’s Auction House. In case you’re curious, here’s a list of the countries that have insulted China – and the frequency with which they’ve dared do so (English). 

Perhaps I haven’t quite run into the truly proto-nationalist crowd here yet – but no one really seems to care at all about centuries old tin animal facsimilesnational treasures; and some of the discussion that can be found (see translated comments here) seems downright reasonable. To what extent does Western media report only on headlines (themselves directly from Chinese State-Media outlets, which in these cases naively assert that every single member of the 1.4 billion strong Han diaspora are ‘furious‘)? Should we be worried about such a bias?