For someone who rails at the US so much and foreign influence, it may be interesting for readers to know that Rui is the very happy owner of a US green card. In private dinners with foreigners present, he talks about how he faked out the authorities in the US to get one.

Many Chinese despise him, and found his anti-Starbucks' campaign to be silly, especially given the fact that the franchisee was Taiwanese and the government could have closed the facility in a minute but chose not to. There is even a story that Rui knew it was going to be closed soon because of new regulations and chose that moment to proclaim his patriotism to save his job at CCTV.