Zealous Chinese Fans Given Workshops on Cheering

Ultra-nationalist Chinese fans are reported to be booing rival competitors at recent Olympic events. Similar incidents over the years have sometimes escalated to violence.
Zealous Chinese Fans Given Workshops on Cheering
Chinese fans have had to take lessons on how to behave at sporting events. Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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Chinese fans have had to take lessons on how to behave at sporting events. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP/Getty Images)

Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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