‘What do you really want from us?’

A video venting some Chinese people's pent-up frustrations and often anger with Western double standards. Uploaded on YouTube in April 2008, it has since been circulating widely in China's heated blogoshphere, feeding China's rising nationalism. It purportedly originates from a poem by Duo-Liang Lin, a retired physics professor of New York State University at Buffalo, which has been featured in the Washington Post.

What do you really want from us? – YouTube

Poem in English on Global Times

What do you really want from us? – Poem in English

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