You and many others are losing your way altogether. I am saying tourists come in all kinds and you cannot choose them - don't make me laugh about targeting one group or type - explain how. More importantly, no one, not you in any of your own countries will put up with the barbaric behaviour of the anti-parallel traders who hit out at all, even locals are mistaken on occasion and berated, chased and had their bags kicked. Yet here you seem ready to accept that a free for all is fine and think the nub of the discussion is rich or poor tourists.
That article is about the CE under pressure to talk to China to relax the once-a-week rule and increase the number of cities in the individual visitors scheme. I am saying he is bound to have to address the possible repetition of these attacks. He is therefore right to sound a warning about the this type of hooliganism.