Very Good to see Chinese "venting" their anger at France business interest.
The more "anger" they vent, the more they hit these innocent Chinese
workers.
France has substantial business investment in China Wuhan Heibei and if
all French businesses such as
Peugeot Citroen and its big suppliers shut down and move, we will see
who will suffer in the end.
Chinese will lose thousands of jobs and these plants can always move to
Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia.
South East Asia welcome all investment from France with open arms.
We urge France businesses to shut down in China and consider South East
Asia.
Incidentally, most of these are France-China investment are JV and
nothing good has come from it.
Like what they said in France, Cest La Vie. You don't like Franch Euros,
we go.
lobert ÂÞ wrote:
> The customers are Chinese, that's why the "nationalist" ask them not to
> buy from carrefour. The more im****tant thing is the people working there
> are also Chinese, it will hit the Chinese workers, but it is okay !
> Just let them vent their anger for a short while.
>
> kingkong дµÀ:
>> These Chinese "nationalist" must be quite stupid.
>>
>> Carrefour hypermart customers are mostly local Chinese people, their
>> products are also source locally, even their own workers are also from
>> China, albeit from different province.
>>
>> Aren't the Chinese attacking themselves ?
>>
>> The worst thing is the Chinese communist government in fact tolerate
it.
>>
>> Carrefour might lose a few stores but I'm sure many countries apart
>> from China would welcome having a few Carrefour store around.
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/china.france
>>
>> Nationalist protests against the French supermarket chain Carrefour
>> spread across China yesterday, with thousands demonstrating outside
>> stores over the west's stance on Tibet. The authorities appeared to be
>> trying to damp down the protests, with the official media urging
>> citizens to be "calm" and "rational". Internet users said web
>> references to protests and boycott calls appeared to have been
>> deleted, or the relevant pages blocked.
>>
>> Overseas, expatriate Chinese on Saturday rallied in Paris as well as
>> outside CNN'S offices in California and the BBC in Manchester - which
>> are also accused of alleged media bias over Tibet.
>>
>> Carrefour appears to be taking the rap for France as a whole after a
>> protester in Paris tried to snatch the Olympic flame from a
>> paralympian during the relay, and because of a rumour that the
>> supermarket had donated money to the Dalai Lama. Carrefour says it has
>> never given money to any political or religious cause.
>>
>> Protests reached China's north-east yesterday, with around 1,000
>> demonstrators turning out in the cities of Dalian and Harbin, while
>> Jinan, in the east, saw a small protest. In Xi'an, western China, more
>> than a thousand people waving banners gathered outside the supermarket
>> for a second day, chanting "oppose Tibet independence", "go China" and
>> "condemn CNN", according to the state news agency Xinhua.
>>
>> Wuhan, in central China, also saw further demonstrations, with 2,000
>> protesters waving the Chinese flag and singing the national anthem.
>>
>> Kunming, Hefei and Qingdao saw protests on Saturday. In Beijing on
>> Saturday, small demonstrations took place outside the French embassy,
>> the city's French school, as well as outside Carrefour.
>>
>> All the protests were heavily policed and peaceful.
>>
>> In an interview published in Journal du Dimanche, Carrefour's chief
>> executive, Jos¨¦ Luis Dur¨¤n, said there had been no significant
>> economic impact, but the company was taking the situation very
>> seriously. It has 2 million customers and 122 hypermarkets in China.
>> He added: "It must be understood that a large part of the Chinese
>> population has been very shocked by the incidents that have peppered
>> the passage of the Olympic torch through Paris."
>>
>> An editorial published widely in the state-run media called on people
>> to cherish patriotism "while expressing it in a rational way".
>>
>> "The government allows people to vent ... but then immediately reins
>> it in," said Barry Sautman, a political scientist at the Hong Kong
>> University of Science and Technology. "They are afraid it will go too
>> far." He cited similar behaviour after anti-Japanese protests three
>> years ago, but told the Reuters news agency that the pending Olympic
>> games made the authorities particularly anxious to ensure the protests
>> ended as soon as possible.
>>
>> The government also appears concerned about potential economic damage.
>> After calls for the Carrefour boycott began, an official commentary
>> said patriotic zeal should "concentrate on development", adding:
>> "Thirty years of reform and opening up have created a China miracle
>> ... But we must be crystal clear that the future road will not be all
>> smooth-going."
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