“Yellow sand from China? Mongolia is the source” Chinese Jeokban Hajang www.korea.postsen.com
The Chinese media expressed their displeasure at the expression of ‘China’s yellow dust’ being used worldwide.
According to the Global Times, a state-run media outlet in China on the 16th, the Central Meteorological Observatory of China said, “The two strongest yellow dust storms this year occurred in Mongolia, more than 600 km away from Beijing, the capital.”
He expressed his displeasure, saying, “Some Korean media reported that the yellow dust from Mongolia was ‘the yellow dust from China’, and even used inflammatory terms such as disaster or hell.” It is argued that the source of the yellow dust is Mongolia, not China, and that China, like Korea and Japan, is a ‘victim’.
The Global Times also expressed discomfort, saying, “Some media outlets in Korea and Japan reported that ‘yellow dust from China’ spread to their countries and affected people’s lives.” In particular, he insisted that this is not the first time that South Korea has shifted responsibility for weather problems.
However, the media actually mentioned only two cases of yellow dust that occurred in Mongolia this year. In addition to the Gobi Desert located on the border between Mongolia and China, the main sources of yellow dust that affected Korea and Japan this spring are analyzed to be the southern part of Xinjiang in China and the central western part of Inner Mongolia.
Published Date:2023-04-17