via: interfax - Cloak and daggers in cyberspace - dark tales from China's Internet
Denunciations of Joffe-Walt began to appear almost immediately in the Chinese blogosphere. Foreign reporters were accused of treating Chinese people "like dogs" by placing their assistants in dangerous situations. Once Joffe-Walt's initial report was found to exaggerate the injuries suffered by Lu, an avalanche of criticism fell upon the journalist on Chinese Internet sites. Focusing on the role of Joffe-Walt, the attacks were expanded to include denunciations of his media outlet, the Guardian newspaper.
what makes this kind of misinterpretation so stubborn?
To blur the situation even further, it has also emerged that the Chinese government employs fellow-traveling "trolls" to offer opinions and write blogs in support of the government, either from a nationalistic perspective or in other ways.
sounds like another "ccp minion" theorist, just wonder which blog they refer to. anyway, such sentiment doesn't prevent their Deputy General Director Renat Abdullin to shake hands with Hu
