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France, Thou Dost Protest Too Much
By Paul Midler | April 10, 2008
Recent protests in France were so successful that China is now considering a retaliatory strike against French products.
In the meantime, I caught an article written by a former activist from Poland:
I remember 14 December 1981. Arm in arm with trade union leaders, Andrzej Seweryn, Zbyszek Kowalewski and I were leading a demonstration protesting against the introduction of the martial law in Poland. We had 100,000 Parisians behind us, nowhere else did as many people take to the street.
How I was proud of that city then. And today I’m proud of it again.
I don’t support boycotts, nor are you likely to find me at a protest rally, but it does seem that actions in France have caught China’s attention — and isn’t that interesting?
Topics: China |
April 11th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Oh No!!! No more Louis Vuitton products for CCP cadres and their mistresses!!!
Oh the humanity…
April 11th, 2008 at 3:24 am
No more french fries!
April 11th, 2008 at 8:16 am
This would be great. Do they also vow never to visit Versailles, Louvre, etc. too ? I miss the quietness in those museums.
They should all write letters to the Foreign Ministry of France, telling them they don’t intent to visit France, ever. Not as tourists, students nor immigrants. And send them their ID, preferably with finger prints for positive ID, so that the French won’t receive 1.3 billion letters from Hu.
If they want to boycott, be serious. Make it official. Make it permanent.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:13 am
“Do they also vow never to visit Versailles, Louvre, etc. too ? I miss the quietness in those museums.”
That’s classic…
April 11th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
That is what I am gonna do.
I, as a individual, will never visit France and buy any product from France anymore.And now since we really don’t like each other,can you French send all these Chinese stuff you robbered back to China ? Thanks
April 11th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
“Oh No!!! No more Louis Vuitton products for CCP cadres and their mistresses!!!”
Oh come now, the cadres have never respected the law and there is certainly no reason to start now…
April 12th, 2008 at 7:35 am
we just enjoy a protest.
Although this time, I found it embarrassing.
And if China really intends to boycott french goods, Sarkozy will go grovel a bit. He’s good at that, if it’s for the economy^^
April 12th, 2008 at 7:52 am
They do like their protests in France. Maybe China doesn’t understand the extent to which the French are active in this way.
April 13th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Yeah, I’ve been thinking of boycotting France too when I heard Paris is oversaturated with Chinese “students”, African immigrants and masses of Mainland tourists in the museums.
Thank goodness they never veer off the popular tourguided routes because that still gives me hope when I plan a trip instead to places like Normandy or the Alsace region…
April 14th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
This should be fun, given that China runs a trade surplus with France. Just another excuse for Sarkozy to rally the EU behind massive trade sanctions against China. Reminds me of Chinese hysteria surrounding Japanese goods in China during the Sino-Japanese War, except during that time, the Chinese were running a trade deficit with Japan.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:40 am
i can live without french products anyway as a chinese citizen…is it also a part of human rights?