R. Elgin writing over at The Marmot’s Hole reports on a pet shop owner in Korea who has been getting all kinds of grief from the Korean Embassy in China and the Korean Foreign Ministry, for Photoshopping a photo of the Tianamen gate to show the picture of a dog in place of Chaiman Mao’s portrait.

Apparently a Chinese student posted a picture of this on the web, thus resulting in the extraordinary posturing by the Chinese Foreign Ministry, which summoned an official from the Korean Embassy in Beijing to protest this horrible wounding of Chinese “pride”.

Of course, there are many different reactions one could have to something like this, but I really like Mr. Elgin’s approach of sticking the needle in a bit further with his Photoshop effort that he titles: “Chairman Meow.”