cnn beijing bureau chief stephen jang joins us now but you will take us through this horrifying videoit is emblematic, right, of other issues in china with the treatment of women. >> that is certainly the question on the minds of millions of people across this country. as you said, as difficult as it is to watch this horrific video, it is important to show our viewers, at least a portion of it to illustrate why this incident has turned such strong reactions across china. in the surveillance video from last friday, you can see a man in green walking past a group of women eating at this restaurant and making unwanted advances to this woman in white. after she rebuffed him more than once, not only did he not give up, he started hitting her in the face. that is when she and her friend tried to get in the way, trying to hit him with what appeared to be beer bottles. that is when this man and his cohorts escalated their violence against these women, by punching and kicking them in the restaurant and throwing a chair at them, and then, these men grab this woman in white out of the restaurant