1、Fresh anti-Western protests rock China by Robert J. Saiget Sun Apr 20BEIJING (AFP) - Fresh anti-Western protests broke out in China Sunday with angry demonstrators targeting US broadcaster CNN and French store Carrefour in rows over perceived bias, Tibet and the Beijing Olympics.Protesters in Xian,
2、Harbin and Jinan defied a huge police crackdown to chant slogans and hold banners that read “Oppose Tibet independence,“ “Oppose CNNs anti-China statements“ and “Boycott Carrefour,“ a participant said.,Experts say patriotism understandable, but urge people to be rational(Xinhua) 2008-04-20 BEIJING -
3、 Expressing understanding about patriotism among those calling to boycott French retailer Carrefour, several senior Chinese intellectuals Saturday called on the public to choose a rational way to express their love for the country.“What happened in France showed that some French did lack true unders
4、tanding of China, including the Tibet issue,“ said Prof. Zhou Xing, with the College of Art and Communication of Beijing Normal University.,Reuters: Angry Chinese burn French flag outside Carrefour AP: Protests against French retainer Carrefour spread in China NYT: Chinese urge anti-West boycott ove
5、r Tibet stance WashingtonPost: Protests in China target French stores LA Times: China urges calm as anti-Western protests continue Times: French supermarket Carrefour faces wrath of Chinese protesters,Rational,？,We are rational? Or they are more rational?Who is the real rational one at present?,Chin
6、a moves to rein in Carrefour protests,China moved to head off nationwide protests against the French retailer Carrefour on Thursday, fearing that they threatened to damage the countrys image ahead of the Beijing Olympics. Small groups of up to a few hundred people staged protests in at least five Ch
7、inese cities, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. Police quickly dispersed or detained those involved. In Beijing, a heavy uniformed and undercover police presence deterred most protesters at the branch of Carrefour closest to the university district. During the morning a few young people
8、 wearing T-shirts with slogans decrying the Tibetan independence movement and the western media were detained by police and made to remove their shirts. The latest outburst of nationalist fervour came as Mia Farrow, the US actress and human rights campaigner, was allowed to enter Hong Kong to give a
9、 speech criticising Chinas relations with Sudan. Her visit was closely watched as a test of how open the city dared to be while hosting the Olympic torch, and follows the deportations of several activists in the past few days. Popular anger towards the west and its media has grown in China in recent
10、 weeks in reaction to anti-China protests during the Olympic torch relay in Europe and the US. Pro-Tibetan demonstrations in Paris, where one protester tried to snatch the torch from a Chinese paralympian in a wheelchair, provoked the most heated response, while CNN has borne the brunt of anti-weste
11、rn media attacks after a commentator referred to the Chinese government as “goons and thugs”. A boycott due to coincide with the May 1 national holiday appeared to have failed at Carrefour shops in Beijing. Staff said business was slightly slower than expected for a holiday but was nonetheless busie
12、r than normal. Carrefour refused to comment on whether calls for a boycott had affected its business. The retailer has 112 supermarkets in China and employs more than 44,000 people. After initially tolerating anti-western protests, the government has used its state security apparatus to quell protes
13、ts. In recent days the government has blocked all internet searches for Carrefours name in Chinese. Reuters reported a Beijing official as saying that climbers taking a special Olympic torch up Mount Everest had been delayed at Advanced Base Camp while they awaited better weather before heading to t
14、he peak.Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008,Chinas angry youth vent their feelings,Images of angry Chinese students beating up Korean protesters in Seoul and attacking Carrefour supermarkets at home may well have been the last thing Bo Yang, the controversial author of The Ugly Chinaman, saw
15、before he died on Tuesday in Taiwan at the age of 88. Mr Bo, renowned for his criticism of what he dubbed Chinese cultural tendencies towards authoritarianism, xenophobia and intolerance, spent nine years in prison in Taiwan . But he saved his most scathing criticism for the Chinese Communist party,
16、 which he accused of drawing out the worst characteristics of the Chinese people. For some in China, those characteristics have been evident in the behaviour of the young nationalists known as fenqing, or “angry youth”, behind an aggressive response at home and abroad to the pro-Tibet protests that
17、greeted the Olympic torch relay in places such as Europe and Australia. “These people have been trained in an authoritarian system. They are at the same time victims of an authoritarian system, but they also behave in an authoritarian way towards others and are incredibly self-righteous,” says a Chi
18、nese politics professor, who asked not to be named. “We should be more tolerant and respect the right of people to disagree with us but these people do not understand such values.” The term fenqing has been used in each of the past three generations to describe very different kinds of rebel.,Chinese
19、 and proud: the graduate behind anti-,Rao Jin, a graduate of Beijings Tsinghua University, is proud to call himself a fenqing, or “angry youth”, when it comes to defending his country against foreign media reports. The 23-year-old budding website entrepreneur, who speaks limited English and can acce
20、ss western news reports only through Chinas heavily censored internet, has drawn global media attention over his site, anti-. The no-frills site uses the slogan “Dont be too CNN”, hitting back at the US-based news network after a commentator referred to the Chinese government as “goons and thugs”. I
21、t mixes polemical video arguments in Chinese and English that support Beijings version of recent and historical events in Tibet. Mr Rao comes across as a thoughtful young man, until asked about the violent outbursts by Chinese students against protesters in South Korea during the Olympic torch relay
22、. “Some Chinese students were provoked into attacking those people in Seoul and some of them were beaten, too. Why didnt you report that?” he retorts. In the Cultural Revolution, the word referred to the millions of urban-dwelling students who were sent to the countryside to toil with peasants and b
23、ecame embittered towards a society that had stolen their futures. In the 1980s the term was used to describe the students and intellectuals who shaped the movement for greater social and political freedoms that ended when the tanks rolled into Tiananmen Square on June 4 1989. The Ugly Chinaman becam
24、e hugely popular among that generation of fenqing when it was published in 1985. In recent weeks the world has seen a glimpse of the modern fenqing patriotic, xenophobic, nationalistic and, in some cases, violent in their defence of the motherland. This latest incarnation has partly emerged as the r
25、esult of government policies implemented in reaction to the events of 1989, after which “patriotic” indoctrination became an even more important element of the education system.,There are no indications that the contemporary fenqing are members of the sort of organised nationalist movement seen in p
26、laces such as Russia, where Nashi, a pro-Kremlin youth group, has had a growing profile in recent years. Rather, “since the mid-1990s urban educated youth in China have become much more nationalistic rather than angry at the government”, says David Zweig, director of the centre on Chinas transnation
27、al relations at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. “There is a strong sense that the west, led by the United States, is trying to keep China down and stop it from taking its rightful place in the world.” With limited access to alternative views, the vast majority of Chinese are not awar
28、e of the deep resentment many Tibetans feel towards Beijings heavy-handed style of governance. They accept without question the official version that recent protests began when a handful of criminals went on a rampage at the incitement of the Dalai Lama. One widely held belief, even within elite pol
29、itical circles, is that the US Central Intelligence Agency supported and incited the Dalai Lama to launch the recent Tibetan protests, which began on March 10 with peaceful demonstrations and descended into violent riots on March 14. “People in the west dont understand the Tibet issue and they are b
30、eing tricked into attacking China,” says one avowed fenqing who asked not to be named. But for many outside China the fenqing appear to be looking at the west through the prism of their own society and assuming that governments elsewhere exercise as much control over public discourse as the Communis
31、t party does in China. “China and the Communist party seem to have become fused in the minds of most of the young Chinese Ive met,” says a Danish student at Peking University, the birthplace of the Tiananmen generations fenqing but today a place where the politics of patriotism drown out dissenting
32、voices. “If you criticise the government its like youre criticising the entire nation of 1.3bn people.” After a wave of anti-western protests centred around Carrefour supermarkets, the government has mobilised its state security apparatus to tamp down passions. Copyright The Financial Times Limited
33、2008,Anti-French Boycott Falters in China From Newyork times: BEIJING They came. They expressed patriotic fervor. Then they shopped.,On Thursday, the first day of a planned boycott against Carrefour, a French retail chain here, there were a few low-key protests around the country, but many Carrefour
34、 outlets did a healthy business in peanut oil, petit fours and family packs of litchi juice. In the grass-roots boycott call, publicized through text messages and popular Web sites, Chinese consumers have been urged to avoid the stores as punishment for what China considers Frances shabby reception
35、of the Olympic torch. During the Paris leg of the relay last month, pro-Tibetan agitators lunged at a Chinese torch bearer in a wheelchair. The images of her shocked and wounded expression have fueled a backlash against Western countries that many here believe are seeking to spoil Chinas Olympic mom
36、ent of glory. It did not help that the Paris City Council followed up by making the Dalai Lama, Tibets spiritual leader in exile, an honorary citizen. Many Chinese believe that the Dalai Lama was responsible for anti-Chinese rioting in Tibet in March. On Thursday, the start of a three-day national L
37、abor Day holiday here, there were reports of small rallies at a dozen Carrefour outlets around the country, but the absence of any mammoth groundswell, and the presence of throngs of unapologetic shoppers, suggested that nationalistic fury might be fading. “Politics is one thing, but the people have
38、 to eat,” said Zheng Wu, 55, a Beijing housewife whose shopping cart was loaded with a 12-roll bundle of toilet paper, two large sacks of rice, a box of cornflakes, three pairs of pink flip-flops and a plunger. The government has also been trying to dampen the anti-French zealotry. Government minist
39、ers have gone on television reminding people that the 40,000 employees at the nations 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
40、 for the Olympics. “We Smile to the World,” read an editorial headline in The Peoples 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 hav
41、e 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.” Still, a few protests drew hundreds of people to Carrefour stores in Xian, Chongqing, Shenyang and Changsha, although the
42、police made sure the rallies were brief. A demonstration in Fuzhou drew 400 people, according to Xinhua, the official news agency, with students carrying Chinese flags and banners saying “Oppose Tibet Independence” and “Love China.” The authorities quickly dispersed the crowds and hauled away those
43、who refused to yield, Xinhua said.,Rrom 環球網： 在首尔，27的奥运圣火虽然传递过去了,可是韩国国内却一片对中国的讨伐声. 主要是针对所谓的中国留学生27号的“暴力示威”. 国人都知道,这是夸大其辞的东西. 当然我们的留学生中那天是出现了不够聪明的举动,也许是因为爱国激情的膨胀,有部分学生对ZD分子动了拳头.就是因为这个,给韩国媒体一个盼望已久的反华机会。还有，现场那些ZD分子，自己带来了改锥，扳手，石块等凶器，卻对着镜头说是中国学生袭击他们。最近，韩国新闻中不断播出那些“暴力镜头”和一些所谓的凶器证据，然后说我们的暴力严重影响了韩国国民的爱国自尊心。现
44、在，韩国政府居然要求中国就此道歉。 媒体，政府是一片讨伐的声音，韩国人民当然也对中国人的憎恨到达了极限。他们已经在网上公布了那天带头“闹事”的中国学生的姓名，学校，电话号码等资料。据说，很多中国学生现在手机都不敢开，因为总有人会打恐吓电话，或是乱骂。我们现在晚上都不敢出门，因为很难保证路上遇见韩国人，会挨打什么的。前一阵子就有韩国学生嘴里喊着“打的就是中国人”而故意把清州一个中国学生给打了。现在27号这么一闹，中国留学生在韩国真是处境太危险了。因为韩国人不像西方人那样，懂得人权，平等什么的，他们其实就是随便动拳头的莽夫。比如，在美国的中国人可以去CNN门口示威，只要有分寸，是合法的，美国人也不
45、能怎么样。可是在韩国，这不可能。他们会野蛮的动用武力。27号，我们学校一个学生只是在ZD份子面前举起了国旗，就被警察当作闹事者制服了。所以，我们在韩国不能像在美国或者别的国家那样自由的争取权利和尊重。 现在，韩国警方已经把几个留学生带走了，好像说要严惩。各个学校的学生会长和一些留学生负责人也遭到人生安全的恐吓。韩国人说要让中国人看看，他们也不是好惹的。还有人悬赏捉住我们带头的那几个留学生。我们只是出来留学的人，平时在韩国受尽他们的鄙视和侮辱不说，就算是支援圣火传递的那一天，表达自己的爱国情绪，到最后都是这样的结果。这么一来，中国学生在韩国，只能越来越危险，越来越没有地位。 我是女生，也许还稍微好一点。我想提醒在韩国所有的留学生们，尤其是男生。在晚上或者是中国人少的地方，一定要保护自己的安全，不要随便的和韩国人发生冲突，否则，受伤害的只有我们。韩国的中国大使馆门口现在已经每天都被韩国示威的人们包围了。使馆的人们也很危险。但是，中国一定不能道歉。我们正当爱国，我们没有错，凭什么道歉？大使馆要是不能保护留学生的安全，以后还有谁敢在国外爱国？ 留学生在国外，始终是弱势群体，媒体的不公正报道，导致国民仇恨心理，最后受害的只有我们。请大家务必冷静，不要正面冲突 。,
