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*** 29-Mar-17 World View -- Asians in Paris, France, riot for two nights after police kill Chinese man

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  • Asians in Paris, France, riot for two nights after police kill Chinese man
  • French-Chinese xenophobia appears to be growing in Paris

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**** Asians in Paris, France, riot for two nights after police kill Chinese man
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Asian community protests on Tuesday evening in Paris against police killing of Chinese man (AP)

A 56-year old Chinese man, Shaoyo Liu, was shot to death by police
during a raid on his apartment on Sunday.

Two policemen from the "anti-crime brigade" (BAC) came to the
apartment in response to reports of a "family dispute." According to
the police, Liu ran to one of the policemen carrying a pair of
scissors, and stabbed one of them in the chest. He was saved only
because he was wearing a bulletproof vest. At that point, the other
policeman shot him, leading to his death minutes later.

Liu was the father of five children. His family disputes the police
version of the story, and says that Liu came to the door carrying
scissors because he had been using them to prepare fish for dinner,
but didn't stab anyone. According to one of Liu's daughters in tears:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"About eight o'clock, my little sister heard knocking
> at the door. She looked at the hole in the door and saw two men
> and an armed woman. My father came to the door with the scissors
> he had to take care of the fish he was cooking. The blows at the
> door became stronger and stronger. I shouted 'Calm down,' make
> less noise, but nothing made it. They smashed the door, the shot
> was gone and my father found himself on the ground."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

On Monday evening 200 members of the Asian community gathered in front
of the police station to protest the killing. The protest began
peacefully, but then individuals broke the window of a police car and
threw an incendiary device inside, creating a fire that bured the
vehicle out. 35 people were arrested.

On Tuesday evening, hundreds of protesters returned to the police
station to demonstrate, chanting "police assassin," "police murderer"
or "injustice, injustice." The crowd turned violent, and the police
fired teargas to disperse them.

According to one protester, "There are two versions, that of the
police which speaks of self-defense and that of the family which says
that it is a crime. What is happening, there is no reason to believe
the police."

China's foreign ministry lodged an official protest, urging a full
French investigation and for Chinese people's "security and rights" to
be protected. Le Parisien (Paris) (Trans) and Europe1 (Paris) (Trans) and BBC

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The incident has sparked a diplomatic row with Beijing. On Tuesday,
the Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned a French diplomat and urged the
French authorities to investigate the killing thoroughly and to ensure
the safety of Chinese nationals on French soil.

In 2008, in the lead-up to the Olympics games to be held in China, the
Olympic torch was being carried through Europe by Jin Jing, a pretty
27 year old girl from Shanghai confined to a wheelchair, part of
China's national wheelchair fencing team. As I wrote in 2008, anti-Chinese xenophobia was
extremely high, as there were intense protests in London and Paris
against allowing Jin Jing to carry the torch in Europe. British
politician Lord Sebastian Coe, himself a former Olympic athlete,
condemned the army of Chinese "thugs" accompanying Jin Jing, referring
to the security personnel protecting her. An article in the German
magazine Der Spiegel referred to the Chinese with the
headline, "There's no way people like that should be allowed on our
streets." In Paris, on April 7, a Tibetan separatist attacked Jin
Jing as she was carrying the torch down a Paris street.

There are about 392,700 Chinese in England and Wales, and about
600,000 in France, which has the largest Chinese population in Europe.
Chinese people in Europe claim that racism against Chinese is
widespread, and that complaints to the police about physical and
verbal abuse are ignored. According to a poll, there's a general
belief in the Chinese community that reporting crime is futile, and
half the people say that they don't trust the police.

As I've been writing for over ten years, America and much of the world
are in a generational Crisis era, which is always accompanied by a
rise in nationalism and xenophobia. The survivors of World War II
were well aware how dangerous nationalism and xenophobia can be, and
they put in place rules and institutions to prevent it from occurring
again.

This past weekend was the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the
Treaty of Rome that formed the basis for the European Union. In 1957,
the traumatized leaders of the day had suffered through two world wars
in Europe, and were determined to form a new unified Europe that would
guarantee that no such war would occur again. Few people are missing
the irony that Britain was missing for the weekend's celebration of
the Treaty of Rome, since Britain, one of the original signers, is
leaving the EU because of the Brexit vote.

Nationalism and xenophobia are extremely dangerous, but as the
survivors of the previous generational crisis war die off, the younger
generations have no fear of nationalism and xenophobia, and they begin
to increase again, eventually leading to a new generational crisis
war. I've documented numerous examples in country after country of
the rise of xenophobia and nationalism in the current generational
Crisis era -- the rise of xenophobia and nationalism. This has
happened in China vs Japan, China vs Vietnam, India vs Pakistan,
Europe vis-à-vis the Muslims and the Roma, and America vis-à-vis the
Muslims and the Mexicans. These attitudes cannot be stopped. They
come from masses of people, not from the leaders, whose job becomes to
deal with these populist attitudes in a way that does the least amount
of damage.

Still, the anti-Chinese riots are part of a global trend that cannot
be stopped, and it will take another world war for people to learn how
dangerous nationalism and xenophobia can be. Daily Mail (London - 8-Apr-2008) and BBC (1-Jun-2015) and Global Times (Beijing) and Washington Post

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China, Shaoyo Liu, 2008 Olympics, Jin Jing, Lord Sebastian Coe

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