Frisbee Hu

飞盘胡 (Fēipán Hú): Frisbee Hu

“Frisbee Hu” was re-popularized during the Southern Weekly protests of January 2013. Weibo user 青媒素 quipped on January 8 about “that cruel moment when the dog nabs the Frisbee”--when Hu Xijin tows the Party line.

An editor who will eagerly take a positive spin on whatever facts the government throws him. The term was coined amid the fallout of the Bo Xilai scandal, during which Hu Xijin, editor-in-chief of the Global Times, published an editorial titled “Bo’s Case Shows Resilience of Rule of Law.”

Netizens were scornful of the attempt to find a silver lining in the scandal, wondering why, if the rule of law was so resilient in China, Bo was not questioned earlier for a pattern of alleged misconduct that stretched over decades.

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