The French TV channel France info interviewed French Foreign Minister Le Drian on the 26th. The foreign minister expressed his deep dissatisfaction with the refusal of the Chinese Communist Party‘s ambassador to France, Lu Shano, to apologize to the French scholar he insulted when he was summoned.
French Foreign Minister Le Drian
According to AFP, Le Drian condemned Roussano’s insults to French scholars and attacks on French European parliamentarians, saying that they were unacceptable. He said France would not rest on its laurels and said he was negotiating with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on the matter.
In response to Beijing‘s accusation that the West is spreading rumors by condemning the Chinese Communist Party for violating the human rights of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, the French foreign minister said he re-emphasized that the European Union has repeatedly called on Beijing to allow the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to visit Xinjiang freely.
Earlier, on March 21, Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shano shocked French political and academic circles by using the vulgar term “hooligan” to attack French scholar Antoine Bondaz, who had opened a new research program on Taiwan. The next day (March 22), the official website of the Chinese Embassy in France responded to criticism of the Communist Party’s war-wolf diplomacy by stating, “If there are war wolves, it is because there are too many mad dogs.
The French Foreign Ministry summoned Lu Shano on March 23, and the head of the French Foreign Ministry’s Asia Department intervened with him to protest against sanctions against individuals and entities such as European parliamentarians and to demand that Lu Shano apologize to the French academics he insulted with his words, but Lu Shano brusquely refused the French request. According to Le Drian, the negotiation lasted for about half an hour.
In response to Ambassador Roussano’s vicious remarks, a French diplomatic official said, “Ambassador Roussano’s words and actions have created obstacles to improving Sino-French relations.
On March 22, the European Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada joined forces to impose sanctions on Chinese Communist Party official Wang Junzheng Chen Mingguo and others for their involvement in the Xinjiang genocide, the first Time since 1989 that the European Union and the United Kingdom have sanctioned the Chinese Communist Party. The Chinese Communist Party then retaliated against the EU. Sanctions were announced against 10 individuals and four entities in Europe, including five members of the European Parliament. “Angered, the members of the European Parliament then vowed not to ratify the EU-China investment agreement.”
Over the past few days, European countries such as the Netherlands, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lithuania, Belgium, Italy and Slovenia have summoned their Chinese ambassadors to their countries in response to the retaliatory actions of the Chinese Communist Party. They protested against the sanctions imposed by the Chinese Communist Party on the European Union and demanded that the Chinese Communist Party withdraw the sanctions.
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