KFC and iPhones are the latest targets for Chinese nationalists
Washington
SINCE an international tribunal ruled last week against Beijing's claims to the South China Sea, Chinese nationalists have expressed their contempt in a number of ways.
There have been condemnatory editorials in state media, an open letter penned by Chinese students and a militaristic techno music video asking, "Who cares?" In their latest protest against the tribunal's decision, which sided with the Philippines, Chinese nationalists are taking aim at a slate of idiosyncratic targets: iPhones, Philippine mangoes and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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