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发信人: cyan (青影), 信区: WHU 标题: zzParis Draws China’s Wrath Even as France Tries to Smooth Things Over 发信站: BBS 珞珈山水站 (Wed Apr 23 20:28:17 2008) By STEVEN ERLANGER Published: April 23, 2008 PARIS — China stepped into an internal French political spat on Tuesday, fier cely condemning a decision by the Socialist city council of Paris to make the Dalai Lama an honorary citizen of Paris. “China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the honor, said the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu. “This act of crude in terference in China’s domestic affairs has seriously damaged the Sino-French relationship, and in particular the existing friendly ties between Paris and B eijing.” Not only that, Ms. Jiang said, “To make the Dalai an honorary citizen of Pari s now can only be considered as another grave provocation of 1.3 billion Chine se people, including the people of Tibet, and it will further encourage the ar rogance of the Dalai and Tibet independence elements.” The attention Beijing has now provided will no doubt please the newly re-elect ed mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, who is running hard to become the le ader of the Socialist Party, which is in disarray after losing the presidency a year ago to Nicolas Sarkozy and the right. The gesture allowed Mr. Delanoë to distinguish himself from Mr. Sarkozy, who has waffled about whether he will attend the opening ceremony of the Olymp ic Games on Aug. 8. Mr. Sarkozy is under pressure from French business leaders who are deeply invo lved in the Chinese economy. The supermarket chain Carrefour has 112 stores an d two million customers in China and has already been a target for Chinese pro tests, both government instigated and not, of the sometimes violent scenes tha t met the Olympic torch in the streets of Paris on April 7. Bernard Arnault, chairman of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy- Louis Vuitton, whose products are popular with wealthy Chinese, told the newsp aper Le Figaro that he understood “why the Chinese population could be affect ed by the attacks against its country.” There have been several days of anti-France protests aimed at French companies and an Internet-led boycott of French goods. The Chinese have disseminated ph otos of a Chinese female athlete in a wheelchair, carrying the torch, being ac costed by a Parisian protester in a Tibetan hat. Mr. Sarkozy, who led a delegation of French business leaders to China in Novem ber, has said his attendance at the opening ceremony will depend on whether Ch ina reopens dialogue with the Dalai Lama, while Foreign Minister Bernard Kouch ner, a human rights advocate in his youth, has said “foreign policy cannot be reduced to human rights.” But in another effort to dampen Chinese reaction, Mr. Sarkozy wrote a letter o f apology to Jin Jing, the athlete in the wheelchair, offering sympathy and sa ying that he condemned this “painful moment” in the “strongest possible ter ms.” It was hand-delivered in Shanghai by the president of the French Senate, Christian Poncelet. Ms. Jin was reportedly unimpressed, and Mr. Sarkozy appea red to be kowtowing more to French commercial interests than to Beijing. But h e was not in the front lines defending the Dalai Lama — unlike Mr. Delano&eum l;. On Sunday, the newly accredited Chinese ambassador to France, Kong Quan, tried to dissuade the city council, saying the vote could “damage the trust, frien dship and cooperative relations” between the countries and “worsen the situa tion in Tibet.” The French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Pascale Andréani, was quick to issue her own statement on Tuesday, saying that Paris had acted on its own and impl ying that whatever it does would have no effect on French foreign policy. “It is not our place to interfere with a decision taken by the City of Paris,” s he said. “Local authorities are fully independent, and therefore what towns a nd municipalities do is their own responsibility.” Mr. Sarkozy is sending two other emissaries to Beijing to reassure the Chinese — his diplomatic adviser, Jean-David Levitte, and Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a fo rmer prime minister. The Chinese traditionally see such emissaries as a form o f tribute. China may want to send a strong message more broadly. France takes over the pr esidency of the European Union on July 1 and will be in charge of diplomatic r elations between the bloc and China during the Olympics. Katrin Bennhold contributed reporting from Paris and David Barboza from Shangh ai. -- 乖把你的手拿开~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ※ 来源:·珞珈山水BBS站 http://bbs.whu.edu.cn·[FROM: 202.114.73.*]
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发信人: cyan (青影), 信区: WHU
标题: zzParis Draws China’s Wrath Even as France Tries to Smooth Things Over
发信站: BBS 珞珈山水站 (Wed Apr 23 20:28:17 2008)

By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: April 23, 2008
PARIS — China stepped into an internal French political spat on Tuesday, fier
cely condemning a decision by the Socialist city council of Paris to make the
Dalai Lama an honorary citizen of Paris.
“China expresses its strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the
honor, said the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu. “This act of crude in
terference in China’s domestic affairs has seriously damaged the Sino-French
relationship, and in particular the existing friendly ties between Paris and B
eijing.”

Not only that, Ms. Jiang said, “To make the Dalai an honorary citizen of Pari
s now can only be considered as another grave provocation of 1.3 billion Chine
se people, including the people of Tibet, and it will further encourage the ar
rogance of the Dalai and Tibet independence elements.”

The attention Beijing has now provided will no doubt please the newly re-elect
ed mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoë, who is running hard to become the le
ader of the Socialist Party, which is in disarray after losing the presidency
a year ago to Nicolas Sarkozy and the right.

The gesture allowed Mr. Delanoë to distinguish himself from Mr. Sarkozy,
who has waffled about whether he will attend the opening ceremony of the Olymp
ic Games on Aug. 8.

Mr. Sarkozy is under pressure from French business leaders who are deeply invo
lved in the Chinese economy. The supermarket chain Carrefour has 112 stores an
d two million customers in China and has already been a target for Chinese pro
tests, both government instigated and not, of the sometimes violent scenes tha
t met the Olympic torch in the streets of Paris on April 7.

Bernard Arnault, chairman of the luxury goods company LVMH Moët Hennessy-
Louis Vuitton, whose products are popular with wealthy Chinese, told the newsp
aper Le Figaro that he understood “why the Chinese population could be affect
ed by the attacks against its country.”

There have been several days of anti-France protests aimed at French companies
and an Internet-led boycott of French goods. The Chinese have disseminated ph
otos of a Chinese female athlete in a wheelchair, carrying the torch, being ac
costed by a Parisian protester in a Tibetan hat.

Mr. Sarkozy, who led a delegation of French business leaders to China in Novem
ber, has said his attendance at the opening ceremony will depend on whether Ch
ina reopens dialogue with the Dalai Lama, while Foreign Minister Bernard Kouch
ner, a human rights advocate in his youth, has said “foreign policy cannot be
reduced to human rights.”

But in another effort to dampen Chinese reaction, Mr. Sarkozy wrote a letter o
f apology to Jin Jing, the athlete in the wheelchair, offering sympathy and sa
ying that he condemned this “painful moment” in the “strongest possible ter
ms.” It was hand-delivered in Shanghai by the president of the French Senate,
Christian Poncelet. Ms. Jin was reportedly unimpressed, and Mr. Sarkozy appea
red to be kowtowing more to French commercial interests than to Beijing. But h
e was not in the front lines defending the Dalai Lama — unlike Mr. Delano&eum
l;.

On Sunday, the newly accredited Chinese ambassador to France, Kong Quan, tried
to dissuade the city council, saying the vote could “damage the trust, frien
dship and cooperative relations” between the countries and “worsen the situa
tion in Tibet.”

The French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Pascale Andréani, was quick to issue
her own statement on Tuesday, saying that Paris had acted on its own and impl
ying that whatever it does would have no effect on French foreign policy. “It
is not our place to interfere with a decision taken by the City of Paris,” s
he said. “Local authorities are fully independent, and therefore what towns a
nd municipalities do is their own responsibility.”

Mr. Sarkozy is sending two other emissaries to Beijing to reassure the Chinese
— his diplomatic adviser, Jean-David Levitte, and Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a fo
rmer prime minister. The Chinese traditionally see such emissaries as a form o
f tribute.

China may want to send a strong message more broadly. France takes over the pr
esidency of the European Union on July 1 and will be in charge of diplomatic r
elations between the bloc and China during the Olympics.

Katrin Bennhold contributed reporting from Paris and David Barboza from Shangh
ai.

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