Apparently the chaos of the Olympic torch's appearance in Paris has ruffled some Chinese feathers. This news item reports that in response Sarko is sending 3 senior French envoys to China.
By the way, do you remember me once saying flippantly that, goodness, nowadays if somebody doesn't like somebody else, one will simply call the other a "Nazi"? The same news article has this to say too:
Christian Poncelet, the leader of the French Senate and first to arrive in Beijing, was met yesterday by a third day of demonstrations around the country, as thousands gathered outside branches of the French supermarket chain Carrefour calling for a boycott of French goods.*Snort of derision.*Protesters in Wuhan, in central China, were seen waving French flags with swastikas on. One flag bore the words "Joan of Arc equals prostitute, Napoleon equals pervert, France equals Nazi".
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