Tag: Nationalism

Walmart Faces Backlash in China Over Disappeared Xinjiang Products

January 1, 2022
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U.S. retail giant Walmart Inc. came to be the latest Western company caught in a storm of nationalist outrage in China—which is not unusual—after its subsidiary allegedly pulled Xinjiang products off shelves in its locally based stores. Retail warehouse Sam’s Club, a division of Walmart, responded by putting it down to low stock, Chinese media…

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Mercedes Draws Flak for ‘Insulting China’ With Slanted-Eyes Model

December 29, 2021
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German automaker Mercedes-Benz provoked anger in China for using a model with “slanted eyes” in a video advertisement. The Asian-looking female model, featuring small, slanted eyes and high cheekbones, drew criticism from nationalistic Chinese netizens upon its release via Chinese social media platform Weibo on Dec. 25. The relevant hashtag has since generated about 250…

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Yoram Hazony: How Hitler and Marxists Defiled the Idea of Nationalism

November 16, 2021
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Adolf Hitler “detested the idea that nations should be independent. His worldview was to eliminate independent nations. … He stole our word [nationalism] and applied it to this evil-doing, to his imperialism.” At the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida, we sat down with Yoram Hazony, chairman of the Edmund Burke Foundation and author of…

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With Censorship and Nationalism, Beijing Puts International Investors in Tight Spot

October 25, 2021
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News Analysis International investors will find investing in China harder given the censorship of respected business news, and the state-fueled rise of communist nationalism. Beijing is imposing new pressure on Caixin Media, one of China’s most respected business news sources. On Oct. 21, China’s internet watchdog deleted Caixin from its list of 1,358 approved sources….

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China’s Extreme Nationalism Is a Direct Threat to the US

October 22, 2021
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Commentary The Chinese regime, arguably the biggest threat to the United States, is busy molding young minds and unyielding levels of loyalty—China’s “Generation N.” A few months ago, in an op-ed for the South China Morning Post, Jun Mai and Amber Wang described China’s Generation N as a politically-engaged group who are “more vocal and more nationalist than those…

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The Olympic Games Remind Us of the Necessity of Nationalism

August 13, 2021
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Commentary The recently completed Tokyo Summer Olympic Games were, in many respects, an unmitigated flop. NBC’s prime-time coverage averaged a paltry 12.9 million viewers, making for the weakest ratings since NBC first began airing the Summer Games in 1988. Overall, the Tokyo Games saw a 49 percent ratings drop since the previous Summer Games, 2016’s…

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Tiananmen and China’s Self-Serving Victimhood

June 6, 2021
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Commentary Tiananmen Is broad and clean And you can’t tell Where the dead have been And you can’t tell What happened then And you can’t speak Of Tiananmen James Fenton, “Tiananmen” (1989) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has largely silenced annual observations of the oppression that took place in 1989 in Tiananmen Square throughout the…

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