07.30.09
French Guy in Wuhan Plays Policeman; Embarrasses China, West, Self
Wuhan made headlines a couple of months ago when the chengguan, “urban management” officers in charge of enforcing public order, simply surrounded and stared at an illegal street vendor until he was shamed into leaving. This was news because chengguan are typically expected to use more forceful methods to clear out the riffraff.
Now Wuhan’s chengguan are taking it a step further and deputizing a foreigner to put help save Wuhan from utter chaos by forcing shopkeepers to move boxes of bottled water off the sidewalk:
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ODB said,
July 31, 2009 at 03:21
mon Dieu…
Little Herschel said,
August 14, 2009 at 12:34
Someone better stop him before he surrenders Wuhan to the Germans…