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Enough of this racism: Foreign visitors must respect Kenyans

Chinese national Liu Jiaqi was deported on Thursday for making racism remarks. [File, Standard]

The Thursday deportation of Chinese national Liu Jiaqi points to a troubling trend in what is becoming a complicated relationship between Kenya and her friends from China.

Mr Liu was secretly captured on video by a worker he had threatened to sack from his motorcycle shop. In the clip, Liu claimed that there was nothing that poor, black, smelly Kenyans could do to him before finishing up a long rant by calling Kenyans monkeys.

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