Bad China

[Lilith7]

We might see it as arrogance, they see it very differently.For instance, the scammers were their own people, so the over arching cultural imperatIve is to sort out your own, in order to avoid losing face. We see this with the state in China in a lot of areas, their prestige and standing is of enormous importance to them. To trust another nation to sort out a nest of Chinese crooks is probably beyond them.

I cannot help from my Western cultural perspective to see it as a kind of personality disorder, and in that sense, yelling at them will achieve nothing. Diplomacy, as a form of talk therapy might be a better approach.

I understand their concerns about scammers; that isn't the problem. Its the way the went about it, just arriving in another country & grabbing people up with no concern for what - or who - they may have been disrupting, & removing them while wearing hoods in order to presumably avoid identification.

Have any of those people got children who've been left behind? Partners, friends, family? We don't know & we'll probably never know & probably never know what becomes of those people who will almost certainly have families in China,if not in Fiji.
And I suspect that China would have a fairly strong reaction, if another country was to do this to their own people in China.They've lost more face by behaving this way in someone else's country than the scammers have caused.