Boycotting foreign brands and speculating on domestic goods to make money
The “patriotic netizens” who boycotted foreign goods late last month have suddenly been speculating on domestic Li Ning sports shoes. A pair of Li Ning sneakers, originally priced at 1499 yuan, was speculated to nearly 50,000 yuan. In response, the official media quickly stepped in to stop it, and some online stores responded by quickly taking down the hotly speculated Li Ning sneakers. Some commentators said that the shoe speculation reflects the current situation of Chinese society.
Chinese official media last month called on netizens to boycott foreign brands of sports shoes, in support of Xinjiang cotton fabrics. This was followed by the burning of American brands Nike and Adidas. In the context of China’s “support for national products”, earlier this month, some netizens speculated on brands such as Li Ning and Anta, for example, Li Ning Wade Way 4 All Star Silver and White model, the original price of 1,499 yuan, but in the e-commerce platform asking prices up to 48,889 yuan, an increase of nearly 32 times. And Li Ning Wade Way 7 wow7 The Moment beyond the limited edition, the original price of 1677 yuan was fired to 29999 yuan, an insane increase of nearly 17 times.
Concerned about the “shoe speculation” storm, Hangzhou businessman Wen Yunhai said in an interview with Free Asia: “I think this behavior belongs to patriotic behavior mutated trafficking. Especially the mainland people’s patriotism to the marrow of this thinking, they all say patriotic, in order to obtain personal benefits, in fact, in China, more than one sickle, so harvest patriotism ‘leek’ too much, just some ‘leeks’ do not know it. “
Weekend Li Ning offline stores, but also a sea of people. (Taken from Weibo)
People’s Daily” and other official media commentary on this, to curb the speculation to buy national goods boom. According to Xinhua’s commentary, if the “shoe speculation” leads to sneaker lovers not being able to buy the sneakers they want, and thus the national brand loses the trust of consumers, it is tantamount to exhausting the fishery and cutting off the road of upgrading the national brand. A small number of Internet platforms are taking the opportunity to fuel the “shoe speculation” problem. The regulatory authorities should also take an active role in strengthening supervision and guidance, maintaining market order and creating a good environment for the development of “national products”.
The official media issued an article on online stores quickly off the shelf hot speculation shoes
Once the official media criticized the article on shoe speculation, e-commerce companies immediately took action and the hotly speculated Li Ning sneakers were taken off the shelves. For example, the three sneakers marked by the seller in the online picture were taken off the shelves by the shopping network of Takeo. Beijing resident Mr. Zhang told the station that patriots nowadays are only “patriotic in their mouths”: “People had pure faith decades ago, but of course it’s not the same as it is now, decades later. These things should not actually happen, but it can not be helped, the time has changed, people’s demands mixed with a lot of distractions.”
According to Tianjin media personality Liu Xiaoyuan, the Boxer-style behavior of the netizens reflects the moral degradation of Chinese society today: “One hundred years later, China is still the same as it was a hundred years ago with the Empress Dowager Cixi at the top and the Boxers at the bottom. Patriotism is really a tool and means, national sentiment has become the ruling class as a kind of spiritual opium, poisoning generations of Chinese people.”
Hangzhou Li Ning discount store. (Taken from the Internet)
A century of truth has not awakened the nation
Liu Xiaoyuan believes that the nationalist sentiment of Chinese people is most easily incited by the rulers, and in the end it is they who suffer. She cited an example: “In the 2012 anti-Japanese march, the wife who was smashed into a vegetable by the march in Xi’an actually said something like, the last thing you should drive is a Japanese car, and the Japanese are to blame for this incident in the final analysis. This is really a sad and pathetic group of people. Mr. Ma Xiangbo (1840-1939) said more than a hundred years ago, “I am a dog that has been barking for a hundred years and has not been able to wake up the Chinese. This is the political ecology of China.”
For nearly three decades, Chinese civil movements have boycotted goods from the United States, Japan, and Korea, and in each case, the government forces have dominated. In response, Xu Di, a scholar of literature and history at Zhejiang University, told the station, “A normal civilized society, its values, its ethical system is formed by spontaneous order, not power, much less capital. Often a society with too much centralized power will distort and corrupt the social and ethical system. That is exactly what is happening in mainland China today.”
Xu Di said that the so-called patriots who create social unrest treat “patriotism” as a business, and then use their wealth to squeeze the people living at the bottom. Chinese society is like a patient with terminal cancer.
Recent Comments