why are you assuming it was hacked, if there is a maintenance/upgrade message?

do nationalist zealots from all non-English speaking countries typically co-publish their jingoist diatribes in English, or is this phenomenon unique to China?

just wonderin'.

my experience with being hated for my nationality and/or ethnicity is limited to the PRC.

i should get out more.

ana:

I think it has been hacked. The question mark in the title of this post indicates that I do not know for sure.

Because if it was written only in Chinese, nobody would give a rats' ass...

(wonder why they didn't try French)

*yawn*

I think the Carrefour website needs to be viewed in Internet Explorer.

The image is missing the upper half of the Carrefour logo which also contains the message in Chinese.

Three interesting images I noticed:
Who attacks whom? (3:05) This image shows Buddhist monks attacking Chinese shops; is it from Lhasa in March 2008? I haven't seen it before.
Say No to Riots (4:10) Was this image taken in front of the Carrefour in Hunan?
爱自由爱中国 （5:53） This amusing image of a foreigner with a beret holding a handwritten banner in Chinese characters appears right after a photo of the China's flag next to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Is this really a Frenchman expressing love of freedom and China? Vive la France!

我怎么觉得好多话都是反着说的，这人到底哪边儿的。

The soundtrack is Vangelis' from the movie "1492: Conquest of Paradise", if anyone wonders.

Me thinks there's too little fact and too much linking of only vaguely (or not at all) related information. Where's the ethics of fact-based journalism gone? It's easy to play on patriotism, hard to get to the bottom of difficult issues.

B do you mean that the journalistic standards of this youtube video are not good? When have you ever expected more from some dude's video on youtube?

the Chinese gov's choise of covering as much report as possible was apprent, but why it did so, what it really avoided was the common anger of the Chinese toward Dalai Lama, the Buddists, the tibetan. As you can see what they are doing now.

but can you call the boycott against Carrefour or the anger toward CNN nationalism? it's only the symptom. when everyone on the street, every housewife and old lady glare at it in anger, it's well beyond nationalism. so mind the wording. some national awareness has been stirred up. somebody could be wrong, the minority or the mojority, but not when there is no such a division, not when people of a country goes as a whole.

A dieu le coq gaulois.

First, I don't know if anyone noticed but you can't even search for Carrefour or 家乐福 on the web for a few days. It returns the search as illegal.
So the government of China is the one that is boycotting Carrefour; they are just using these slaves they have as prop for show. The ban is just lifted today.
Second, why the heck those so called "patriots" would even shop at a French supermarket anyway? Aren't there Chinese owned supermarkets?
Of course there are - but the Chinese can't trust their own people - they don't want to buy fake infant formulae, fake contaminated Colgate toothpaste, fake bean thread and anything else fake that you can think of.
If those protestors are so patriotic, they should clean up their own house first. Get rid of the corrupt officials; fine all the polluting western manufacturing companies, enforce all the labor laws, etc.
We in the west complain about our government all the time; don't see those patriotic Chinese having the guts to complain about their own government.
They are merely slaves to their own government. Once their government says stop, they will have to stop. Pity them.
I bet Carrefour will survive - hey we should buy their stocks while it is low.

freedom: We posted about the 家乐福 keyword filtering here.