internet - NPC-delegate Wang causes a fight

The internet in China exploded yesterday as users learned about a brawl caused by NPC-delegate and private business man Wang Tingjiang while leaving a plane at the airport of Weifang in Shandong province.

For still unclear reasons Wang and a party of a dozen attacked airport police, ground staff and stormed the secure area of the airport. Some of the passengers feared they witnessed a terrorist attack, according to some of the witnesses.

Sina.com.cn brought it as one of the first, but then had to withdraw it from its frontpage; it gave the blogosphere enough time to pick it up and circulate the story. One person is said to be wounded. It is a minor story compared to the scandal surrounding the 166 dead miners in Shaanxi, but a good example of how the internet is changing China.