If the Chinese really want to boycott all things French, they should
not stop at just boycotting Carrefour. The Chinese should also stop
drinking French Wine, ****ing French Pussies, and eating French
Bananas.
On Apr 20, 8:01 pm, kingkong <hah...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Very Good to see Chinese "venting" their anger at France business
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>
> 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 =C2=DE 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
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> > are also Chinese, it will hit the Chinese workers, but it is okay !
> > Just let them vent their anger for a short while.
>
> > kingkong =D0=B4=B5=C0:
> >> 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
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> >> 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=A8=A6 Luis Dur=A8=A4n, said there had been no
significan=
t
> >> 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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