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| Audi disclaims responsibility for bellicose Chinese banner |
| 2012-09-24 |
| Volkswagen AG’s luxury Audi (NSU) unit asked a Chinese dealer to remove a banner advocating the murder of Japanese people after a photograph of the sign went viral on the Internet amid escalating tensions between the two countries. The anti-Japan message captured in the photo of the unidentified dealership doesn’t reflect Audi’s views, said Lu Minjie, a spokeswoman at FAW-Volkswagen Automotive Co., the venture that makes Audi-brand cars in China. Audi, which counts China as its biggest market, asked its dealers to be reasonable in expressing patriotism, she said. The photo, spread via China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo service, showed 14 people -- half of them women -- posing in front of an Audi dealership under a red banner that read “Japanese must all be killed.” Tension between Asia’s two largest economies escalated in the past week as thousands protested in Chinese cities against the Japanese government’s purchase of the disputed islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #1 That's what the accumulated wisdom of thousands of years of culture will getcha. |
| Posted by: Shinter Javirong9154 2012-09-24 14:57 |