China state media seeks to cool nationalist anger
By Verv

Mon Apr 21, 2008 - The Chinese are royally upset. This from Reuters:
Chinese official media have sought to temper nationalist calls to boycott foreign businesses accused of backing Tibetan independence, urging angry citizens to focus on economic development.

Chinese Internet sites have been awash with calls to stop buying French goods and stop shopping at Carrefour stores after Tibet protesters in Paris upset the Beijing Olympics torch relay.

Following prominent local news reports, Chinese officials and citizens have also vented outrage at a commentator on CNN television who spoke of Chinese "goons" and "junk" products.
I sympathize with the Chinese on some level. The Olympics for the Chinese are not political and just as traditionally all arms were laid down for the people around Greece to gather for the Olympics, we need to lay down our politics and merely try to celebrate this moment with them as opposed to concentrating on tickling the political underbelly of the Chinese dragon.

The anti-western sentiment is getting quite extreme as they have even created the site Anti-CNN.com. Surely we've now only achieved more heated worldly division over the Olympics which should be the opposite of what is happening.




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