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On November 21st, a netizen posted a video on Hupu(虎扑), the famous BBS in China, saying that a foreign man was arrested for shoplifting in a shop in Shanghai. This news has caused widespread attention, and her girlfriend’s reaction has angered Chinese netizens.

Watch the video below 

 

© Video | HUPU

 

What’s going on?

 

According to witness at the scene, the situation occurred in a store in Shanghai. At the time he was shopping with friends, and suddenly he heard a salesperson yelling at a thief. It is said that the foreigner stole the latest e-cigarette at the time and the salesperson requested to return it. 

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At this time the man tried to escape from the store, but there were a large number of onlookers at the scene and he could not escape successfully. The salesperson chose to call the police, and the man immediately lay down on the ground and shouted for help.

© IMAGE | HUPU

 

What happened next shocked people. The Chinese girlfriend of the foreigner told all the people on the scene: “He is a foreigner. You can’t arrest him!”

© IMAGE | 百家号

 

Soon, the police appeared and tried to bring the man back to the police station for investigation, but his girlfriend disagreed with this and kept shouting: “He is a Moorish! He is a Moorish! He is a Moor! You have no right to catch him!”

At this time, the onlookers were angry. Someone responded to her: “This is China! If you do something wrong, you should be punished by law.”

Meanwhile, the man has been trying to avoid being taken away. So the police tried to stop his struggle, but his girlfriend shouted: “You have no rights! He is a foreigner!”

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The police responded that “This is China, not a foreign country. In China, we must act in accordance with the law.” After that, they began to take the man away.

In the video, you can hear that in addition to calling for help, the man repeatedly told his girlfriend in English: “Tell them that I am a lawyer! Tell them I am a lawyer!”. However, his girlfriend didn’t hear about that or was too busy to explain his words.

According to photos provided by netizens, foreign men and girlfriends were taken to the police station for investigation.

 

© IMAGE | HUPU

What do Chinese netizens say?

“Even if you are a Spartan strongman and you come to China to break the law, you will be caught.”

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“Moorish, I thought he was from Mole’s world (an online game for kids).”

Mole’s world

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“The Moorish believe in Islam. Allah’s punishment for the thief is very strict, stealing things is to chop the hand!”

“His girlfriend was shouting “He is a Moorish?” Can someone tell me where Moore is? I only know Morocco.”

“The most ridiculous thing is that he has been calling, I’m a lawyer. Don’t lawyers get caught breaking the law in China?”

 

Recently, many shipping companies have sent notice that they will raise prices or adjust business. Below we summarize the information of these major shipping companies. Let’s see!

OOCL

 

OOCL has opened a new direct route to West Africa. The bill of lading requirements for some countries in West Africa are summarized as follows:

 

CMA CGM

 

Notice on the price adjustment of the European line. All customers (including FAK) have been adjusted from the following prices since December 1, 2018.

*Base port to base port rates. Out-ports are subject to usual TAO/TAD.

Scope North-West European Base Port. In addition, attachment fees are charged for all inland points.

Target For all FOB and C&F customers.

Container type GP, OOG, empty vans, and RF.

PIL

 

On November 18, 2018, the PIL Line levied a PSS notice on the East Africa Line.

 

MSC

 

Notice on updating the fuel surcharge.

Fuel adjustment for Chinese regional export goods:

 

 

Goods exported to South Africa will be subject to GRI:

 

Bangladeshis can now enjoy visa on arrival in China, the Chinese embassy in Dhaka said in a statement issued yesterday.

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The port entry can be availed for 

• Urgent humanitarian cause, 

• Business, 

• Repair work, 

• Tourism, 

• Other urgent needs.

For tourism purpose, Bangladeshi tourists need to be organised to visit China as tourists by Chinese travel agencies.

For business purpose, repair work or other urgent needs as stated, there has to be an invitation from the Chinese party.

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Spokesman of the Chinese embassy, Chen Wei, said the port visa system is available to foreigners, including Bangladeshi citizens.

The port visa system does not impose restrictions on specific countries, but only makes requirements for entry purposes.

The duration of stay for port visas are up to 30 days.

Bangladeshi citizens who are qualified and able to provide relevant supporting documents can apply for port visas at relevant Chinese ports.

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According to the Chinese Embassy, the number of Bangladeshi visitors to China is increasing each year. In 2016, the number of visitors was 39,055 and it stood at 47,430 in 2017. As of now, the number of Bangladeshi visitors has already crossed 50,000.

Meanwhile, Chinese Embassy officials said the introduction of visa on arrival will bring a positive impact and greatly help people who need to visit China urgently.

They said Beijing is giving Dhaka a “higher priority” in its diplomatic policies.

Few people don’t know the international luxury brand Dolce & Gabbana(D&G), its classically created LOGO always reminds people of the most fashionable design styles for clothes, bag and watch. 

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Stupid Is As Stupid Does

 

Yesterday (Nov 21st) D&G managed to achieved itself the hottest hastag on Chinese Sina Weibo for several hours. But far from doing itself a favor in promoting the brand’s fame, that heatedly discussed hastag disgraced its world-wide reputation, triggered Chinese people’s boycott to this brand and put itself in the center of whole-China’s fury. 

So what happened? The real culprits behind all these were the racist remarks from D&G’s designer Stefano Gabbana and an insulting ad video made by this brand.

This video, posted on D&G’s official Sina Weibo account , was made by D&G to warm up its big stage show organized and scheduled to start on today in Shanghai. 

In the video, an eastern woman wearing an eye-catching red D&G-designed clothes is eating Italy foods with chopsticks. People see nothings wrong when they watch the video at first sight.  

But what caught Chinese netizens’ attention was the video’s narrations, in which the male narrator speaks arrogantly, pronounces the Italy word “Bravissimo” in Chinese accent purposely and uses improper expressions like describing Chinese chopsticks as “little sticks”. 

Most netizens in Sina Weibo, after watching this video, thought the narrations in the video insulted traditional Chinese culture. 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvSVYphuDYo

And that was not the end for this incident. One Chinese user exposed several dialogues with the brand’s designer and co-founder Stefano Gabbana, making the situation worse. Based on screenshots posted by the online user, the designer used expletives to describe China, and expressed his determination he would never cancel the offending post. 

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The designer’s offensive and racist remarks instantly went viral on Sina Weibo, many Chinese celebrities including the international super star Zhang Ziyi and Li Bingbing announced their decisions not to attend D&G’s stage show in Shanghai after knowing the China-insulting incident. 

 

And celebrities’ boycott to the show scheduled on Nov 21sth directly leaded to the cancellation of it. It is reported that the construction fee for the stage of the show and fees for other preparation works surpass 8 million RMB(about 1155,268USD). What a waste, right?

 

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Realizing the incident kept brewing negatively in China, D&G later claimed on its official Sina Weibo account that the the designer’s Instagram account was hacked and the racism remarks were not made by him.

Very soon, the designer himself also updated his post on Instagram by saying that he loves China and apologizes for the whole incident. Most Chinese netizens did not believe what the designer said, the huge contrast of the designer’s words makes the apology unconvincing and Chinese people don’t buy it. 

 

© Image | Instagram

 

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What a pity, thousands of people including models and work staffs worked so hard to present the world a great show but it was totally ruined by the designer’s stupidity on his remarks. Shame on him. 

The latest news today says that many Chinese online shopping portals including T-Mall and JD.com have already delisted D&G products from their online shelves. It seems that the incident is far from be resolved and D&G at this moment should know that Chinese people are really pissed off. 

© Image | Weibo

Respect Helps Your Business Grow Better 

There is a wise Chinese saying concerning business-doing goes like this: “Harmonious relations help make business prosperous” (和气生财). This is a motto has been kept in heart and mind by generation after generations Chinese businessmen, and it is also applicable for any business and is especially true for contemporary business activities. 

Respect gains respect.

 

When expats try to settle down or want to start a business in a foreign country, three things should always be kept tight in mind–they are: be respectful, be modest, build a harmonious relations with things and people around you. 

You may have already known it well that the Chinese society is a “关系社会” or “Connection society”. Chinese people value their social connections a lot. And this society’s feature is heavily reflected in business circles. 

 

If you spend much effort in building good relations with the things and people around you, you should free yourself the worries like current small-scale or limited applicable business sources, because your Chinese friends and customers will help you a lot in promoting your company’s reputation. And that is the invisible asset for your company. 

 

However, if you do the opposite like D&G who is so two-sided, making money from Chinese and showing no respect to them, your business will not go very far because powerful strength generated from the aligned social connections will make your business less progress or even hard to continue. 

“Stupid is as stupid does”. 

 

Some Chinese internet user revise “D&G” for “Dead & Gone” or “Damn you & Go home”, Chinese people’s anger will make D&G pay and the brand should learn a lesson from this.