July 4, 2008
Sarkozy "not welcomed" in China
不是“爱来不来”，而是根本“不欢迎你来”！
~ It's not 'Come if you want,' it's basically 'You're not welcome."
That's the response of Chinese netizens to French President Sarkozy who said he will decide next week whether to attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics, with his choice depending on how talks go between Beijing and the Dalai Lama's envoys this week.
Sarkozy reiterated Monday that the events in Tibet were "not acceptable," but he also warned against angering a power of China's size.
"We absolutely must not push a population of 1.3 billion people into wounded nationalism," he said.
If Sarkozy does come, he may face a hostile crowd who'll be yelling "Va foutre le camp!" (Get outta here!!) According to an online survey by Chinese website Sina, more than 89 percent of the 173,527 respondents do not want Sarkozy to attend the Olympic opening ceremony. Over 88 percent of the surveyed said they found Sarkozy's remarks about China "extremely unfriendly" and "not fit for a leader of a major developed country", while about 10 percent consider his remarks only political rhetoric.
Either way, his presence or absence will be duly noted domestically and internationally with significant consequences. Whether they will be positive or negative, well, that will be very much up to le Président.
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What a brilliant comment by Sarkozy ""We absolutely must not push a population of 1.3 billion people into wounded nationalism"
I'm starting to like this guy a lot.
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For illumination on how clever it is the netizens only need ask themselves if they are happy Bush is now coming. Touche.
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Such online surveys are not representative!
The netizens can mobilize a lot of people to vote against the french head of the state. If you compare this to the MSN (L) you can feel, which power such snowball system has!
There was a discussion on German television 'bout Tibet where also a survey was started. You had to call in and press button 1 2 or 3 on your phone, depending your opinion. And guess what? Right! A lot (I mean a lot!) of chinese called in. The web also mobilized them to call in.
So my point is: Don't trust on such surveys! It may carve out a trend but not a clear opinion of the chinese people!
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what a diplomatic failure!
First he fooled Merkel and then he was fooled by Bush. The pimp is just not smart.
But he can still send his sweetie who would be welcome for sure, if she still remembered her cat-walk. Who said only Kadafi can send his wife to Athen as honoured guest?
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Oh, I get it - we have a politician who actually has the balls to say his opinion aloud, does so reasonably, and points out real problems with China - and the nationalistically wounded Chinese netizens immediately demonize him.
Head in sand, everyone. Nothing wrong with our country. Decry the foreign devil for his unkind words.
I'm glad China learns all about 'political correctness' from the West.
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@DaffyDuck
You don't know much I love your beloved president, especially when he suddenly changed his mind "unconditionally" and express his hard-headed willingness to attend the Olympic openning ceremony, after he has got no positive response for his demand of result from Beijing-Daliar talk and after China told him he was not welcome, maybe because 88% of 195,000 surveyed Chinese are "wounded nationalists", even more "nationalist" than our dear Tibetens brothers.
Though he has already fooled Chinese the orders of a total euro 2.5 billions 6 months ago, he still kept French unemployed in mind, for which he prepare to stand all kind of badmouthing. Chinese definitely will learn all from Sarkozy, mainly about his attitute to serve people. Comparing with his selfless merit, Chinese still have a long way to go.
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“爱来不来”
I don't care if you come or not, I don't give a rat's ass.
根本“不欢迎你来”！
you are not welcome at all!
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The problem is that wounded nationalism. And there isn't 1.3 billion people when you discount Taiwan, Tibet and E. Turkestan.