After those protests in Paris, the fury of the Chinese blogosphere appears to have been turned full force on the government and citizens of the French Republic. There've been a good number of calls for a boycott of Carrefour, the gigantic France-based supermarket chain that's all over China (and, not incidentally, employs quite a lot of Chinese ( Read more... )

I knew as we reached these last few months before the Olympics finally start that the news here would be all about them. But I must say, even in all the speculation about how things could go wrong, I didn't foresee the bombardment of pictures and blog posts coming out of London, Paris, and San Francisco in the past few days ( Read more... )