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Originally Posted by bub  Well in France it was some citizens who called for boycott, while in China it was organized by the government. |
This is complete and utter bull****. I challenge you to show me where the Chinese government organized this event? And then on top of that explain to me why it is that the government then sent police to crack down on the protesters to prevent them from protesting and boycotting.
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The government has also been trying to dampen the anti-French zealotry. Government ministers have gone on television reminding people that the 40,000 employees at the nation’s 112 Carrefour stores are Chinese. Newspaper editorials have hinted that bygones may as well be bygones, urging citizens to heartily embrace foreign friends, about 1.5 million of whom will be arriving here in August for the Olympics. “We Smile to the World,” read an editorial headline in The People’s Daily celebrating the 100-day countdown to the Games.
In case that did not do the trick, state censors made it hard for organizers to get the word out. In recent days, some text messages championing the boycott have been blocked; on Thursday, typing Carrefour into Chinese-language search engines returned blank pages explaining that such results “do not conform to relevant law and policy.”
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This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say the west only looks on china through what they care to perceive it as and not what it actually is. They're protesting against french goods, oh it couldn't possibly be because Chinese are pissed off it has to be that the government is organizing it.
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Originally Posted by bub Yes it seems that there have been big progresses in China recently, but according to many organizations (Amnesty...) it's not enough
as for your forum, I can read some kanjis (国 "country", "man" "south" "north"...) but I don't think I'd even be able to create an account |
I don't really read too much on that forum actually, it's good for some interesting internal things on Mainland China but I'm **** with simplified Chinese
I agree there still needs to be significant strides in progress for China but it needs to be in moderation. I do not wish to see China collapse like the USSR because of simultaneous economic and political reforms. One step at a time Rome was not built overnight.
I can not say I know too much about Belgium so help me out here. But from the wiki article it seems to suggest that the monarchy and aristocracy still nevertheless retained special privileges that the common man did not - an injustice so to speak.