They Take Us for Idiots

From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Wed, 2008-04-23 08:50

A quote from Yves Daoudal at his blog, 22 April 2008 [English translation here]

The torrent of "information" on the Chinese anti-French demonstrations is truly amazing. To read the articles and dispatches you would think that all of China had risen up against the evil French who have it in for the Olympic Games, and consequently for the Chinese people.

As if the Chinese had the freedom to think anything at all about this subject let alone... demonstrate!

When you look at the images, you see that a few dozen "students", surrounded by squadrons of police, are demonstrating at the entrances to Carrefour supermarkets.

Nicolas Sarkozy generously hastened to send a letter of support to the handicapped girl who had "protected the torch" in Paris. They say that in China she has become the symbol of the anti-Olympic and anti-Chinese protests.

The letter, delivered personally by the president of the Senate Christian Poncelet to the athlete, "was greatly appreciated by the Chinese people", according to a spokesman in the Chinese foreign ministry.

And they tell us the letter was appreciated by the Chinese people.

They take us for idiots.

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@ Vinegar Joe

Submitted by traveller on Wed, 2008-04-23 17:14.

I didn't live there but passed quite a lot of time coming and going.
"The Chinese" don't exist as far as I experienced, there are a myriad differences, one even more complex than the other.
Can one do business with them? Yes, definitely.
Can one control them? Never.
Can one change them? Never.
Can one convince them they are wrong? Yes, after a couple of years and a big hammer against their forehead.(Not only as a figure of speech, but mostly they learn and change their opinion after going against a wall)
Just my opinion.

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Some of you should live in

Submitted by Vinegar Joe on Wed, 2008-04-23 16:32.

Some of you should live in China for a while to see just how the Chinese think. I gave up after 25 years there.

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re: They take us for idiots

Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Wed, 2008-04-23 14:23.

"Are there any doubts, that we are idiots?"
 
One assumes that one is using the royal "We".

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They take us for idiots.

Submitted by kappert on Wed, 2008-04-23 13:29.

Are there any doubts, that we are idiots? The activists in Jakarta, Buenos Aires, San Francisco, London and Paris, mostly white, of European origin, plappering nonsense of 'tibetan philosophy' and 'tibetan independence' are an easy match for the Chinese government, especially when those demonstrators use harassment and violence. And surely there are better markets to buy food in China than Carrefour!

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Smarter than europeons

Submitted by Amsterdamsky on Wed, 2008-04-23 13:16.

"you would think that all of China had risen up against the evil French"

If only europe would do this the EU might be a good thing. Meanwhile Fwance prepares another amnesty for another million illegal africans.

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Food prices in China reaching Tiananmen levels

Submitted by Rob the Ugly American on Wed, 2008-04-23 09:32.

Last time food prices were this high in China there were mass protests against the regime and the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

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