From Caijing Magazine: From turmoil in Lhasa to disturbances during the Olympic Torch relay, from the Chinese boycott of the French retailer Carrefour to the noncommittal attitudes of certain Western politicians toward the...
Read MoreFrom SK-II’s problem in China and Japan’s international trade fight to rumors about Carrefour supporting free-Tibet activists, global companies are running into political problems inside China. From the Financial...
Read MoreJeffrey N. Wasserstrom writes in the Nation: To boycott or not to boycott, that is the question. Rather, that’s just one of the questions activists are facing right now when it comes to China. At least four different...
Read MoreWilly Lam writes in the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief about the role young Chinese nationalists are playing in the run-up to the Olympic Games: There are signs that the CCP leadership has started to try reining in the...
Read MoreTwo young women had very different experiences of the Olympic torch relay around the world. Even Jin Jing was criticized as a traitor after she publicly denied to boycott Carrefour. From the Los Angeles Times: As the Olympic...
Read MoreFrom the EastSouthWestNorth blog: The following is a photo play of the events that took place outside the Carrefour store in Hefei city (Anhui province) on April 19, 2008.
Read MoreChina Newsweek’s Mo Zhixu 莫之许 (Beijing-based) in his recent op-ed, “Why am I against the boycott,” revealed the core reason causing boycott–the mixed feelings of pride and a lack of self-confidence of...
Read MoreIn his Washington Post blog, John Pomfret writes about Chinese nationalism based on his experiences as a former foreign correspondent in Beijing: Just how scary is Chinese nationalism? Just how serious are the thousands of...
Read MoreHe Yanguang (贺延光), born in 1951, is a senior photojournalist for China Youth Daily. He wrote on his blog: “I don’t boycott things from France, I only boycott idiots 不抵制法货，只抵制蠢货.” Searching this phrase online,...
Read MoreFrom China National News: China is seeking to calm anti-France sentiment among its people in the wake of the tumultuous Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay, which has made France the target of a nationalist campaign in China....
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