Chinese people from all over Germany converged on Saturday in front of the DER SPIEGEL building in Hamburg to demonstrate their ire against this cover story from late August, “Die Gelben Spione” (”The Yellow Spies”), about Chinese ‘moles’ who secretly copy German technology to recreate it in China — a popular topic in the German press this year. (Whew! Finally some anti-Chinese press to balance out the anti-American stuff. Haha, I jest.) Here are some photos. And a video of the event. –xie xie, Yuhang!

I haven’t seen any mention of this protest in the English or German media.

One sign proclaims “Pressefreiheit ≠ Verhetzung” (”freedom of the press ≠ sedition”). Sedition is, btw, an “act that incites rebellion or civil disorder against an established government.” Fascinating. You could probably use the same sign in China and not worry about getting arrested. But another sign points to the overt skin-colour racism in that unit-moving headline: “We’re not ‘yellow spies’; we’re simply people from China”.

Stumble it!