South China Insight — Ordinary Chinese blame America for the Russian plane crash

What happens when soft power corrodes.

OK, it's anecdotal, but it doesn't bode well when people see the US as the problem rather than the solution, especially when the US view is that if "oppressed peoples" (like the Chinese and Russians) were given the chance to choose for themselves, they would elect to emulate "the American way."

BTW, unlike official and media reaction to the shooting down of MH-17 in the West, there was no official rush to judgment in China or demonizing in the Chinese press. In fact, ISIS took credit for it, falsely it seems.

This seems to be a reaction to the US probing Chinese red lines territorially.

Fort Russ
Ordinary Chinese blame America for the Russian plane crash

South China Insight
Translated by Kristina Rus