WSJ: “Even close ties to the military can’t shield boorish Chinese officials from being called out for behaving badly in the age of social media.
China’s state-run Xinhua news agency on Saturday issued a report largely confirming the account, originally published on Sina Corp.’s Weibo microblogging service, of an Air China flight attendant who said she was bullied by a Chinese official and his wife in a conflict over carry-on luggage during a flight on Aug. 29.
The official is identified in the Xinhua report as Fang Daguo, a member of the Communist Party Standing Committee in the Yuexiu district of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou. Mr. Fang is also political commissar for the Yuexiu Armed Forces Department.
Internet users had earlier helped identify Mr. Fang after the flight attendant, whose own identity remains unclear, posted an account of the attack on the microblogging service that quickly went viral.”
via Chinese Military Official Shamed After Attack on Flight Attendant – China Real Time Report – WSJ.
Yet another example of the increasing power of the Chinese people due to the Internet. See also:
- http://unintend-conseq.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/social-media-triggers-revolutions.html
- * How China’s 300m microbloggers are shaking the system (chindia-alert.org)
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