[fly]To boycott Japanese commodities or not, it is not a question[/fly]
Some Chinese may strongly hold an opinion that to be a patriot is to boycott commodities from Japan. At the first sight, it seems reasonable for not forgetting the insult exerted on other Asian countries by Japan. Of course, the history should be remembered and there are many ways to remember besides boycotting. It is to say, to remember the insulted history does not certainly means to boycott, sort of extremism. By the way, I do not agree with the opinion in the first post for reasons as follows. First, the crime of invasion has nothing to do with "their mothers"; secondly, it is not a one-way economic communication. While we “give” them money, they “give” money to Chinese too, which may be more than that of the former.
If the Japanese boycott Chinese commodities or take some measures to limit them, we should return like for like. As a matter of fact, we have not heard any news about that. So, why should we bother to boycott Japanese commodities? And it is not difficult to imagine that if we boycott first, how about Japanese? Surely, they will response rapidly. The result is the huge economic lost on both sides. One truth is worthy of mentioning here, i.e. Japanese accounts for the lion’s share of our international tourists, which means a large sum of money every year. According to this case, we should bear in mind that we are selling tourism, kind of export, to Japanese while buying their cars, their electronic products. It is a two-win policy to keep business contact with them.
Some one may ask me “If boycott is not the best choice, what is it?” As a matter of fact, Deng Xiaoping, our former great leader, had already answered this question by his famous saying “Fazhang Caishi Yingdaoli!(To develop ourselves should be the top priority!)” We should explore the deep meaning in this simple sentence and not to do anything against to this principle. Obviously, only a strong and affluent China can be “key player” in the stage of world politics and economy.
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