Haidian district, Beijingvia WikipediaOlympic protests at the outlets of the French retailer Carrefour seemed to have been pretty subdue, according to reports from over the country, summarized by the China Digital Times. Four outlets out opf 112 have reported to have seen protests at the gates.
At the Haidian outlet in Beijing police detailed seven people, reports AP, but no other violence is being reported.
One man was stopped as he ran around with a sign that said "Protest Carrefour, Protest CNN" as about 200 bystanders cheered. Two women and two men who were detained wore T-shirts that said "Anti-Riot and Explore the Truth" in English, a reference to deadly anti-Chinese riots in Tibet in March. CNN has been a focus of criticism by Chinese who say foreign news reports on Tibet are biased.
Protesters carried banners and chanted slogans at Carrefour stores in Changsha in central China, Fuzhou in the southeast, Chongqing in the southwest and Shenyang in the northeast, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported.
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Can you imagine someone running around in China with a banner saying "explore truth"??? I am astounded by the irony of it... I thought the people of China knew that the CCP was a propaganda machine, but these anti CNN anti Tibetan protests seem to show that Chinese people think they actually have an accurate perspective on things and contend with people who have different perspectives. It's so not fair that the CCP has been able to con them, it warps their opinions when they are actually bright people, but under the circumstances, their opinions are quite off the mark. I'm not saying theres no manufactured consent here in NA but the CCP has a huge functioning apparatus of mind control that sustains party support (along with corruption). That is to say that it is very difficult to dialogue with Chinese people who are under so much control that they don't even know that there is no way in heck that they will be ALLOWED to "explore truth"
My blog is called No more CCP.
Peace.
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