China finds that the European Union is increasingly hostile to it, denouncing a “coarse interference” in the country’s internal affairs.
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Beijing reacted Friday 21 January to the adoption the day before by the French National Assembly of a resolution recognizing the “genocidal character” of the violence against the hears. “This constitutes coarse interference in Chinese domestic affairs. China is strongly opposed,” said Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Thursday, the Embassy’s website contained a question-answer of the Spokesman for the Embassy. A process that makes it possible to specify in the question that the resolution is “non-binding”. The answer is unsurprisingly indicating that China “strongly condemns” this resolution that only rests on “pure lies”. It adds that China “also expressed its strong concerns that the resolution concerned would seriously affect Sino-French relations as well as the credibility and image of France in the eyes of the Chinese. The French part is in full consciousness of the absurdity and harmfulness of this resolution. It must be coherence between words and act and take concrete actions to safeguard the healthy development of Sino-French relations “.
Moderate criticism
However, China is shown in its reaction of relative mansuquetude. It is that it notes that the European Union is increasingly hostile to it, that it expresses itself more and more strongly on the question of Xinjiang but also from Taiwan. In this concert, France is one of the most moderate countries. The French President, Emmanuel Macron, like the former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and seems his successor, Olaf Scholz, are content with sufficiently moderate criticism for not breaking the dialogue with Beijing.
The Chinese authorities have fully understood it. The proof is the reception they have reserved Thursday, January 13 in Emmanuel Good, the diplomatic advisor of Emmanuel Macron. In a very unusual way, this one went very quietly in China. He met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wang Yi, and had, by videoconference, an interview with Wang Qishan, Chinese Vice President and close to Xi Jinping. Unlike France, China did not fail to mediate this visit. The Chinese statement does not testify of any divergence between the two countries.
Already in the fall of 2021, China had only moderately reacted to the visits of senators then French members in Taiwan, despite the support of the Quai d’Orsay.