Chinese tourists get a bum rap. The resurgent Asian superpower sent around 120 million people abroad last year — the largest cohort in the world — and among that multitude are naturally a few bad apples, swiping life jackets, fighting on planes, and defecating, defecating, defecating.
Even if such behavior is the exception rather than the rule, it clearly does not please the Chinese Communist Party top brass, who this week set out nine sins that are sufficient to get citizens added to the travel “black list.” Being added to the list means a ban on traveling abroad for a lengthy period — anywhere between two and 10 years.