Instead of criticizing Carrefour, she says she is more angered by the coverage of China on CNN. "I think we should be opposing Western media," she says. "I am very patriotic and also rational. And I am strongly against anything that is unfair to China."
Even as Beijing and Paris make nice and the likelihood of widespread protests and boycotts against Carrefour, luxury goods maker LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH) and other French companies operating in China appears to lessen, a much stronger groundswell of anger, aimed squarely at the Western media and its perceived bias against China, is growing. That animosity appears much more deeply rooted than that recently directed at French companies and is getting stronger by the day.