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BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese Internet campaign calling for a boycott of French retail giant Carrefour gained momentum Tuesday, part of a nationalistic counterattack against protests that marred the Beijing Olympics' torch relay in Paris, London and San Francisco earlier this month.
Messages on online Chinese chat boards, petitions and text messages have urged people not to buy goods from Carrefour — one of the most popular supermarket chains in China — starting May 1.
Many online groups and a petition at a Web site called "anti-jialefu.cn," the Chinese name for Carrefour, called for the boycott, saying protests during the Paris torch relay against Chinese policies in Tibet were an attack on China.
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