A foreign man on high-speed train G7530, bound for Shanghai, refused to wear a face mask and insulted the Chinese passengers who discouraged him from this behavior.
A female passenger in an adjacent seat spoke out to encourage him to put on a mask.
Unexpectedly, then, the situation erupted into a heated dispute.
In the video, the female passenger sitting next to the train attendant said: “Wearing a mask is the rule. Foreigners have no privileges!”
Unexpectedly, the foreign man angrily replied:
“She’s not the owner of the train!”
“The train is not her house!”
The female passenger, a middle-aged woman, repeatedly asked the foreign man to wear a mask, saying, “Get off the train if you don’t wear a mask!”
Unexpectedly, the foreign man shouted at the woman: “Shut up!”
His attitude was very arrogant.
On the evening of May 5, the Hangzhou Railway Department posted the following news bulletin on Weibo:
“Relevant authorities have viewed the online video of ‘a foreign passenger having a dispute with other passengers on the train due to the problem of not wearing a mask’. According to preliminary investigation: On May 5, on the G7530 train from Ninghai to Shanghai Hongqiao, it was found that a foreign passenger had a dispute with a passenger next to him because the foreigner did not wear a mask. After being reminded and educated by the train crew, the foreign passenger wore a mask. The railway department reminds passengers to responsibly wear masks when taking the train and to cooperate with the railway to do a good job of epidemic prevention.”