No, being refused service at a restaurant even though you never left the country you are residing in is xenophobia.
And now it's when you link an article with three embedded tweets of people who say that's happened to them?
It is happening
Great. We just need two more people for the article.
It happened to people I know. That’s good enough for me. I still have lots of friends back in Beijing (Chinese, LHFs, and expats). It just isn’t a fun time to be a foreigner in China.