The undated photo shows the Pingtan Strait Road-rail Bridge in southeast China's Fujian. (China News Service/Wang Dongming)

A Taobao shop owner selling HDMI cables from Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, has recently received much attention after a spicy conversation between the owner and a trouble-seeking buyer from the island of Taiwan went viral online. 

The buyer from the island had bought an HDMI 2.1 cable for his monitor in the e-shop, but the monitor only had a HDMI 1.4 port and could not support a 144Hz refresh rate. However, the buyer blamed the shop owner for his own mistake, and further threatened the owner to give him coupons or otherwise he would write bad reviews. 

Refusing to back down from the threats, the owner said, "We are soon to have you returned to the motherland, and by then I will go there by boat from Fujian and teach you some lessons." 

The owner's reply has drawn some 34,000 comments on Taobao, which would count as phenomenal as the e-shops, even the most popular ones, normally have no more than 100 comments. The topic was widely discussed on China's Twitter-like social media platform Sina Weibo as well, as mainland netizens expressed their support for the seller's remarks.

Netizens have also noticed that the owner has changed the content of the shop's default message, which normally describes the package shipping time and the company undertaking the shipment. 

The revised message reads, "Shipments to Taiwan region suspended, will use Dongfeng Express instead and package is expected to arrive through direct access once high-speed rail across the Taiwan Straits opens in 2025."

Dongfeng Express is a nickname of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force coined by mainland netizens in support of the Rocket Force's Dongfeng ballistic missile series, which range from short-range missiles like the DF-11 to intercontinental ones like the DF-26, the latter of which is better known as the "Guam Killer." 

Global Times