‘Vandals are found in all nations’: anger over multilingual graffiti on the Great Wall of China

Widely shared photos showing Chinese, English and Korean graffiti on the most visited section of the Great Wall have sparked anger among Chinese social media users.

The photographs were published on Monday by the state-run Global Times on its Weibo social media account.

The pictures were taken at the Badaling section of the wall near Beijing, although some of the graffiti appears to be old and weathered.

By Tuesday morning, the post had received almost 6,000 comments.

Most criticised the vandalism with many internet users calling for bigger fines as punishment.

The top-rated comment, however, simply read: “People of this type are found in all nations.”