Inside Hong Kong university campus, mainland Chinese students are often referred to as "Shina dogs" and "yellow thug" by local students. On 18 September 2019, the 88th anniversary of the Japanese invasion of northeastern China, a celebration poster was put up on the Democracy Wall of the University of Hong Kong, glorifying the Japanese invasion while advocating for democracy in Hong Kong. Hong Kong journalist Audrey Li noted the xenophobic undertone constituted the widespread right-wing nativism movement, in which the immigrant population and tourists are used as the scapegoat for social inequality and institutional failure.