War heroes should be respected

A RECENT ONLINE campaign launched by Jiaduobao Group, a Hong Kong-based beverage manufacturer and China's biggest herbal tea brand, has been criticized as clumsy and disrespectful because it repromoted an infamous post on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like social network tool, that mocked and doubted a Chinese war hero Qiu Shaoyun two years ago. Comments:

Defamers of Chinese people's heroes should pay the price for what they did, instead of gaining rewards from online commercial promotions. Their punishments can come in many ways, such as being treated with disdain by others. Governments at all levels are also supposed to isolate these disrespectful rumormongers to silence their slanderous talks.

Global Times, April 23