Manage that anger; China.(Chinese nationalist protests)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: April 26, 2008 | Copyright information

No French fries for him

The nationalist genie is out of the bottle

NOT for the first time, and probably not for the last, large numbers of Chinese citizens are awash in a potentially dangerous flood of patriotic indignation. The cause this time is what they see as grossly unfair criticism of China by foreign activists and governments, and biased coverage of China by foreign news outlets. In mid-March riots in Tibet laid bare the vast differences in Chinese and...

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