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Here comes trouble
France apologizes, Paris makes Dalai Lama honorary citizenPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, April 22, 2008 9:12 AM
The top story on the China Daily's website is currently:
The story below is from the Times of India:
Carrefour must be thrilled. See also this Shanghaiist post Anti-French, anti-Carrefour fury bubble over all across China, that describes anti-French protests around the country on the weekend. As of 9:30 am, the Dalai Lama homorary citizen news does not seem to have made it into Chinese language reports yet. Update Hong Kong based Wenwei Pao (文汇报) has published the story in Chinese: Dalai Lama made honorary citizen by Paris city council (thanks to Traci for the link). Update 2: The story has made it to the news pages of gargantuan portal QQ, time-stamped 11:11 am today. |
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Comments on France apologizes, Paris makes Dalai Lama honorary citizen
When the day that Dalai's true face is well perceived, will French feel ashamed?
Your subtitle could not have been more -- a classic. Indeed. I smell...
The news is everywhere in China now...And a new post uncovering Carrefour's relation with RSF is also very popular now(see link)...
BTW: It's not an apology...Jin Jing said that she was sorry that they didn't apologize...
The newsmth post is censored.
BTW, they both should and should not apologize. As torch relay host, they should apologize that they organized it badly; but they didn't impair the relay themselves, so they should not apologize.
It's buzzed that Paris mayer himself setup welcome ceremony in Hôtel de Ville with Snow Mountain lion flag and five handcuffs flag, and then China torchbear team decided to skip Hôtel de Ville and ceremony totally.
Here is the youtube link about the Paris torch relay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj2nt1sz5kY
pshaw, this is getting really annoying.
Point n°1 : no-one in France has any control over the mayor of Paris and his constituency, and they chose to make the Dalai Lama and Hu Jia citizens of honor of the town.
Point n°2 : a few hardcore militants disrupted the torch relay. most french people were very disappointed because they were there to see the relay, which is supposed to be a happy moment. And it was the mayor of Paris who decided to hang the handcuff flag from the Town Hall; he was the only one who could decide that, after all.
Point n°3 : why is France getting all the flak? The protests were just as bad in London. There've been protests in most countries it went through. Why is France the only country singled out?