As spaniard I am atonished about this polemic and the feelings rosed around. I even doubt myself so .. letś ask directly to chineese, fortunately I have some colleagues from China so itś easy,I did ask them directly and explain them the meaning of the finger, because, among other things, they didn't catch the symbol. I also showed them the articles of Daily Telegraph and this page so they can judge and didn't found anything offensive, at the contrary, some fun.. but in general, irrelevant. They just simply don't understand the polemic

We have a saying , roughly translated "Don't try to be more papist than the Rome Pope" , I think this is excessive and completely pointless, now, my question is Is there any intention behind this polemic ? or just this is another of the western stupidities ...