The very least these twits could do is not to lump every Singaporean with the actions of a sad few.

And this is the kind of extremist thought that the average Chinese netizen has? And China is supposed to be the next major power? My toes are laughing.

The mainland Chinese thrives on such dramas. Every tiny frivolous thing gets blown out of proportion to satisfy their urges to see themselves uniting against a "foreign power".

Remember the Olympic torch fiasco last year? Nobody really gives a shit about the torch -- it has all along been a non-event at every Olympics -- a little PR gimmick to give the media something to report before the opening of the games.

Then come last year, when the mainland Chinese dramatized the whole thing, translating "torch" to "divine fire" in Chinese, getting Kung Fu masters to "protect the path" of the "divine fire", and deliberately provoking human rights groups, environmentalists, Tibetans, Fa Lun Gong practitioners, Taiwan independence supporters, etc, into playing the role of their enemies -- just so that they can kow peh kow bu to show their undying love and allegiance to China.

There is nothing more tragic than the history of China over the last 200 years. The way they fuck themselves over time and again. What we are seeing are the sons and daughters of the Ah Q.

Too bad Ah Q isn't a Manny Pacquiao. Imagine inflicting a self-punch like his...

How the Singapore Table Tennis Association or more accurately, the President of the STTA chooses to deal with its ex-staff does not reflect the country as a whole.

But does anyone else feel that the President should come out and clarify her remarks?

By your logic, how Deng and his cronies massacred their own citizens at Tiananmen is reflective of all Chinese then?

The Han Chinese are surprisingly forgiving when it comes to tyrants of their own race (Han, that is). No matter how brutal and inhuman the tyrants are, they accept it matter-of-factly, some even embrace these tyrants.

But it's a different story when it comes to foreigners (Manchurians, Japanese, Russians, Americans, etc). When a stray missile hit the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three, the Chinese reacted much more strongly than when Mao caused thirty million of his own countrymen to perish in the worst famine in human history.

This is the PRC brand of nationalism. To them, having one of their Ping Pong coaches snubbed by Singaporeans is far worse than having thousands of their fellow countrymen slaughtered by one of their own.

Who cares about their opinion anyway?

Perhaps 1% of their population would care. And that would be about 13 million people -- more than 4 times the number of Singaporeans.

personally, i don't really care about what the ah tiongs are saying. what i found really laughable, however, was lucretious' wonderful use of english.

"one body behaviour," anyone? LOL! ROAR!!

he might want to think about blogging in a language he feels more comfortable in.

Liu's nothing special, lah, if you know his history. A club player & coach who got pulled into the national side twice -- sparring partner & apprentice coach, respectively -- by his younger brother (the real gem of the family, in both fields). He's functional at those levels, or as personal coach to a singular player, say, Li Jiawei.

But national head coach? Out of his depth. There was earlier reportings of internal friction in the women's squad. Everyone judged Wang Yuegu to be the "villain", except Tan Paey Fern revealed recently Liu had unfairly treated Wang instead. So Mr. Head Coach was already playing favorites with his charges, as if he's still an assistant flunky. Where's the leadership in that?

It's just unfortunate that the Olympics was where he got exposed -- & then conforming to the worst Mainland Chinese stereotype. Doesn't the Games belong to the athletes? Who, then, purposely ruin a young man's lifelong training by torpedoing him from giving his best? What happened with Gao Ning may be acceptable SOP in the PRC, but we Hokkien peng do NS, you know. Any officer who betrays his men like this will get fragged in wartime (okay, saboed in peacetime).

Liu is not only unrepentant, but mouths off like a he's a CCP towkay to this day. I don't think he wants SG citizenship. But he also strikes me as a mercenary -- he'd started a table-tennis club in China before -- & wants every accolade to go with the reported 6-figure bonus payout as a springboard to realize his personal ambitions. Like, step out of his brother's shadow?

That said, I agree that Lee Bee Wah should've nominated him for COTY, but only after hauling him up for a disciplinary inquiry. Then let the SNOC decide whether to award him, & come what may.

PRCs have long overstayed their welcome here.

Whatever it is, they were here because of our pathetic desperation for a medal.
They delivered, we paid. Simple arrangement. Expecting gratitude in return from a Singaporean boss is perhaps asking too much.

That's right. The coach is from PRC, all the players are from PRC. Some are given citizenship just a year before they represented Singapore. Who are the PAP government trying to kid? Singapore bought an Olympic medal, because we for sure didn't win it.

I don't know about you. But I would certainly have preferred the tens of millions of dollars be spent in other ways: e.g. making wait times at hospitals more tolerable and university tuition fees more affordable.

These people don't use their brain, just because their hear-say and one isolated incident.
There are many more incidents in China, why don't they complain?
Probably the next moment they will be under investigation; hey those guys, don't be a nut.