On the Chinese internet, wall-to-wall state media coverage of the Chinese Olympic delegation’s departure for the 2024 Paris Games has been met with a shrug. With 405 Chinese athletes slated to compete across 236 events,...
At the Prague-based Sinopsis, René Bigey has published a new report on the CCP’s use of professional associations to pursue technology transfer and political influence in France: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has...
Far-right parties across Europe made major gains in this weekend’s European Parliament elections. The gains were most pronounced in one of the E.U.’s most influential members, France, where Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen’s...
This week, Xi Jinping made his first visit to Europe in five years. The first stop on his three-country tour was France, followed by Serbia and Hungary. Xi last met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Beijing last April,...
Saturday’s general election in Taiwan, in which the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost its parliamentary majority but saw its presidential candidate Lai Ching-te elected with 40% of the vote, was closely watched in...
Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron fled a protest-rattled Paris and traveled to Beijing for a high-profile visit with General Secretary Xi Jinping. One of Macron’s main stated objectives was to ensure that China...
The U.S. government has banned the importation of all cotton and tomatoes produced in Xinjiang over concerns about the widespread use of forced labor in the region. The move is the most sweeping measure to date to block the...
During his first official visit to China this week, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to...
Last week, China released Canadian missionary Kevin Garratt, who had been detained on suspicion of...
Two ancient bronze animal head sculptures looted from the Summer Palace during the Second Opium War were returned to China in accordance with the offer businessman François-Henri Pinault made during his visit to the country...
Last week, six Chinese students were attacked by three local residents in Bordeaux, France. Zhang Yiwei at the Global Times reports: Three drunk local male residents attacked the students, who had arrived in France two months...
Two zodiac sculptures stolen from the Old Summer Palace by British and French troops in 1860 will return to China later this year. The animal heads, cast in the mid-18th Century, inspired a set of replicas by artist Ai Weiwei...
China’s Foreign Ministry has said it is “ready to work” with France’s new Socialist president, François Hollande, but Beijing is viewing his election with some wariness. From AFP: Foreign ministry...
Xinhua News reports on President Hu Jintao’s three-day visit to France: With Hu’s three-day visit to France, which started on Thursday, the heads of state and top legislators of the two countries have visited each...
On his trip to China, President Sarkozy of France is encouraging China to support sanctions against Iran. From the New York Times: President Nicolas Sarkozy of France told President Hu Jintao of China that nations would have to...
BBC reports on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit to China: Mr Sarkozy is expected to press the issues of UN sanctions against Iran in meetings with his Chinese counterpart. Both France and China are permanent...
From the New York Times: Shi Pei Pu, a Beijing opera singer and spy whose sexually convoluted love affair with a French Embassy worker created one of the strangest cases in international espionage and was the inspiration for the...
From BBC: China has stopped importing several French-made models of Renault cars, after a safety watchdog said it had found “safety problems”. A Renault spokesperson said problems had occurred in transport and...
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