Taichung, Taiwan – For a user on the Chinese social media platform, Weibo, the problem was the Americans.
“British people make me anxious, but I hate the Americans,” Read the user’s comment.
For the other, it was Japanese.
“I really hope the Japanese will die,” the user repeated 25 times in a post.
Genophobic and hyper-nationalist comments are easy to come to the Chinese social media platforms, even some of the largest technology companies in the country last year promised to stop the hated speech after multiple knife attacks on Japanese and American citizens of the country.
Since the summer, at least four foreign nationals have been stabbed in China, including an incident in September where a 10 -year -old Japanese schoolgirl died in Shenzhen.
Citizens have been persuaded to assure the Japanese government to explain the Japanese government to its Chinese part of the Chinese part of a false flag to prove the fairness of the Manchuria by Japanese military personnel demanding explanation from its Chinese part and to protect the Japanese
After this incident, some Japanese companies have proposed to repatriate their workers and their families in the country.
A few months ago, a knife attack that injured four American college trainers in Jillin, kept the United States-China relations under a strain, accusing the US ambassador and Nicholas Burns not arriving in information with the intention of the invading Chinese authorities.
When Beijing, attacking the families of the victims and regret over compassion, the stabbing incident emphasized that the incident was isolated.
“There may be similar cases in any country,” said Lin Zian Shenzen, a spokesman for Chinese Foreign Ministry, at a regular media briefing.
Although the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Chinese embassy in Tokyo did not respond to the request for comments, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington, DC, has clearly banned the use of the Internet for Chinese law “laws, racial hatred, discrimination and violence and the spread of the Internet.”
“The Chinese government has always opposed any kind of speech of discrimination and hatred, and has called on all sectors of the society to maintain the discipline and protection of cyberspace jointly,” the spokesman told Al Jazeera.
Although violence against foreigners in China is rare, the apparent increase in the attack in 2021 and the tendency of abhorical speeches online encourages concerns in the country, Wang Jichen, founder of Chinese state media journalists and newsletter picnology.
Wang Al Jazeera told Jazeera, “This is such a speech and a domestic discussion on how to restrain it.”
Despite the promise to crack hateful statements against foreigners, this national content is far from straight to the policing, and the PhD student of the United States, Andrew Divine, who is specially in China’s authoritarian politics.
“Especially since (technology) agencies have the incentive not to control the hateful speech,” Divine told Al Jazeera.
Although the algorithms used to distribute content of the Chinese social media platforms have been shared with the Chinese government, they have not been revealed to the public, which is difficult to know the exact process through which the abominable speech is expanded online.
Elena e-Ching Ho, an independent research analyst that focuses on China’s promotion and social media, says algorithms used by Chinese social media platforms are probably not different with people used by outside platforms in the country.
“They want to be the most busy among the users on their platforms, and they want users to stay on their platform as long as possible.”
In order to attract the attention of the users, seeking controversy over hyper-nationalist content can be profitable for the Chinese influential and vulgar, Ho said.
In today’s China, a lack of patriotism can draw public fuel.
Last year, the bottles of Chinese water bottles, Nnfu Spring, were removed from the store N Masce when social media users claimed that a company’s logo portrayed Japan’s Mount Fuji.
The allegation was expanded by the allegation that his son, American citizenship, was exposed to his loyalty to China, who had questioned China, the owner of the online condemnation company.
In 2021, a rock and egg was thrown in two Japanese schools, Kingdao and Suzoor decided to release radioactive waste water treated from the Striken Fukushima nuclear plant in the sea.
Wang said that the spread of negative commentary on foreigners on Chinese social media as a result of the growing hostility between China and some other countries.
“Chinese relations with some countries have been quite significant in recent years,” said Wang. “
China and Japan have worked on a number of historical Tihasik and regional disputes, including the status of the Diau/Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
The United States and China have also declined in recent years, from trade to trade to Covid -1 epidemic, and demanded ownership of Beijing’s self -ruled Taiwan in recent years.
However, disgusting statements to foreigners have forecast some of this recent conflict, according to Ho.
“And Japan and the Japanese were the special goal of it,” he said.
Some Chinese bloggers and social media users have discovered the roots of negative feelings towards Japanese people that they call “hate” about Japan with the misuse of the Imperial-era in China.
Wang said that Japan’s steps during World War II deeply influenced China’s national mentality.
“Japan launched an attack on World War II where millions of Chinese people died and it remains in the mind of many Chinese people today,” he said.
“Some people have a feeling that the Japanese haven’t done enough to make atonement for it.”
Nevertheless, some Chinese citizens have argued that Japan’s atrocities should not be used today to justify the disgusting sensation of Japanese people.
“I think that if we want to see a less hateful speech, we need to change the way we are treating in the past,” Tina Wu Al Jazeera, a 20 -year -old social media manager in Shanghai, told.
Although disgusting speech is not just a problem on China’s Internet, Chinese social media platforms, like the United States, work in a heavy sensor environment where the crackdown of sensitive issues is a semi-constant phenomenon.
According to a report on 722 countries in the US-based nonprofit Freedom House, Myanmar has the lowest internet environment in the world.
According to China Digital Times, more than 5 words related to Chinese President Xi Jinping were subjected to censorship in 2021.
Divine said that some disgusting commentaries are subject to censorship, which is less likely to remove the content that echoes the Chinese government’s official position.
He said that he did not believe that the promise of Chinese technology agencies would do a lot to change the spread of this national product.
“At the same time, technology companies want to avoid taking the extra cost of policing,” he said.
Whatever the enthusiasm, social media platforms, including more than a billion, can not stamp every example of disgusting statements, Wang said.
“There is a lot of information here and more continuously is being added that there is no way to eradicate or eliminate them all,” he said.
“Even in Chinese restraint the ability to have their limitations.”
Wang said he was hopeful that China’s friendly exchange with some countries would recently lead to the growing power and impact of the country to the anti -foreign attitude.
“Instead of being ghostly by the past memories, the greater feeling of protection and confidence should be confident in the future of China,” he said.
Shanghai’s UO has similarly said that he is hopeful that he is expecting to rebuild some of the most influential details related to China, especially foreigners.
“This is a big part of the Chinese story right now that we are constantly suffering from foreign aggression,” he said.
“And as long as it continues as a strong message, I fear that there may be more attacks on foreigners in China.”
