In late March, the Chinese Communist Party took advantage of the sensitive time when many countries proposed sanctions on the human rights issue in Xinjiang, and intentionally rehashed the “refusal to use Xinjiang cotton” statement written by the internationally renowned brand H&M last year to make a big fuss, inciting national sentiment and encouraging domestic pinkies to boycott foreign goods.
From this incident of the Chinese Communist Party advocating patriotic boycott of foreign goods, this is a complete rogue act of using fake public opinion as a diplomatic tool. In addition to the boycott of the Swedish company H&M, which refused to use Xinjiang cotton, Nike, UNIQLO, LV and many other international brands have been affected.
Recently, this wave of boycott is still spreading, but the trend of people buying foreign goods in Beijing is unabated.
Shoppers buy jewelry from an international brand for themselves at a jewelry store in a Beijing shopping center on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside a Chanel store at a shopping center of an international brand in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside the Bulgari store at a shopping mall on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside the Cartier store at a shopping center of an international brand in Beijing on April 18 to enter the store. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside the Louis Vuitton store at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside a Chanel store at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside a Chanel store at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside the Italian luxury fashion house Gucci at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers wait in line outside a store of the Italian luxury fashion brand Gucci on April 18 at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers keep coming in to shop at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
A steady stream of shoppers come in to shop at this internationally renowned shopping center on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
A steady stream of shoppers come in to shop at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Shoppers keep coming in to shop at an internationally renowned shopping mall in Beijing on April 18. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Italian fashion brand Fila is about to open in a shopping district in downtown Beijing on April 16. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Staff wear masks as they wave to passing customers in front of a luxury brand’s department store in Beijing on April 16. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
The Spanish fashion brand Zara store is popular with Chinese shoppers in the shopping district of downtown Beijing on April 16. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
People arrive to shop on a shopping street in Beijing on April 16. (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
A U.S. Apple phone store attracts countless young Chinese to a shopping district in downtown Beijing on April 16. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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