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I believe its mostly a national pride thing. A lot of them are FOBs, don't read English newspapers and see it as an attack on Chinese people and not the government so it's easy to stir them up into this sort of thing. Probably a lot of young dudes there just going for something to do or to try to get laid. I'm sure many of us were conceived after protests ;)
Doubtless the PRC gov is stirring it up a bit with emails and forum posts from 'regular citizens' and most likely even some of their guys on the ground, unknowingly stirring up the crowds and controlling it.
Best behaved group of protesters I've ever seen, I gotta give them that.
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