China-Style Security Doesn’t Travel Well An incident in New Zealand has ignited fresh controversy about the behavior of Chinese security personnel on foreign soil when confronted by pro-Tibet protests.   Reuters Green Party MP Russel Norman, holding a Tibetan flag, gets it torn from his hands by members of China Russel Norman, co-leader of New Zealand's Green Party and a member of parliament, says he was "assaulted" by Chinese security personnel accompanying Vice President Xi Jinping, who was in the Land of the Long White Cloud on Friday as part of a four-nation trip. The altercation occurred outside a parliamentary building called the Beehive in the Kiwi capital of Wellington. Video footage shown on New Zealand station TV ONE shows clearly a scuffle and tempers flaring. As the New Zealand parliamentary speaker greets Xi several meters away, Norman begins waving a Tibetan flag and hollering "Freedom for Tibet. Freedom for the people of Tibet." A suit-clad member of Xi's entourage opens an umbrella in front of the flag—a favorite tactic tactic of Chinese security forces to obscure unsightly political expression. Norman says they also elbowed him. Another member of the Chinese team grabs the Tibetan banner and hurls it to the ground. Shoving ensues as Norman, yelling "give me my flag back," tries to retrieve it. A man who appears to be a New Zealand security officer tries to keep Norman and his Chinese adversaries apart. Chinese leaders (like those of America) are frequently the targets of protests when they travel abroad, though the protesters seldom get close enough to come in direct contact with aides and security personnel. But Chinese security agents have demonstrated before that they're willing to get physical when confronted by those who broach the ultrasensitive issue of Tibet—even when overseas. During the Olympic torch relay, the torch's blue track-suited guardians, members of a specially trained force, were widely criticized in Europe for manh...