How long before events with political leaders will demand that all shoes be left outside? In typical communist China fashion, the government is unable to make light of the embarrassing situation, instead choosing the usual outrage. Even the Bush administration managed to make light of the Iraq shoe throwing incident as it was shown on TV and online millions of times. Beijing only shows the world how tenuous their power is when they overreact time after time. Wen's problems at home are considerably more serious but he always thinks that if the government fails to overreact with everything, their regime will collapse. Maybe there's something there after all.
China denounced as despicable on Tuesday a protester who threw a shoe at Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at Cambridge University and said the Chinese leader's visit to Europe was a total success.
British police said the protester, who shouted that Wen was a dictator during Monday's incident, had been charged with a public order offence and will appear before Cambridge magistrates on February 10. They did not name the man.
"The Chinese side has expressed its strong displeasure over this incident," China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The facts demonstrate that the despicable conduct of this troublemaker will win no sympathy, and will not hold back the tide of friendly cooperation between China and Britain."
The shoe-throwing incident occurred when Wen delivered a speech on the global economy at Cambridge University on the last day of his official visit to Britain.
The shoe missed Wen and landed on the stage about a meter (yard) away from him.
