CHINESE ANTI-FRENCH BOYCOTT FALLS FLAT

It looks like China's protests are as crappy as the products they export.

They came. They expressed patriotic fervor. Then they shopped.

On Thursday, the first day of a planned boycott against Carrefour, a French retail chain here, there were a few low-key protests around the country, but many Carrefour outlets did a healthy business in peanut oil, petit fours and family packs of litchi juice.