China - EU Relations
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
German Chancellor Merkel Avoids Criticism During Visit to China
It is a photo that says pretty much everything there is to say about Chancellor Angela Merkel's two-day visit to China. The image depicts Ai Wei Wei, the bearded artist and dissident, taking the chancellor to lunch in Beijing, she in red blazer and black pants, Ai in a wrinkled shirt and dark athletic shoes. Unfortunately, however, the chancellor in the image isn't real -- it is just a cardboard cut-out that an impishly grinning Ai holds under his left arm. "Taking Merkel to Lunch" is the ironic title given to the photo, which the artist published via Twitter. Ai released the image on Thursday, just as the real chancellor, together with half of her cabinet, was chatting with China's communist leadership in Beijing's Great Hall of the People. No, there was no meeting between Merkel and the regime critical artist, a man that China's leadership locked up for 81 days last year before charging him with tax evasion and forcing him to pay millions in back taxes.
"Merkel in China" by Sanjaya Baru
Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this space Comments View/Create comment on this paragraph NEW DELHI – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s second visit to China in a year comes against the backdrop of dire forecasts of a difficult September for the eurozone. Mindful of such concerns and persistent pessimism in global financial markets, Merkel is now taking bold political initiatives at home and overseas.
By Paul Connolly – 31 May 2011
WikiLeaks: Leaked letter raises questions over US ‘snooping’ on friendly powers - World news, News
Viewing cable 05BRUSSELS2840, EU RECEIVES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON CHINA Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was. The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable.
05BRUSSELS2840, EU RECEIVES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON CHINA
Making sense of Europe's puzzling China policy
"It seems that after Tibet, France has concluded that the best diplomatic strategy is simply to shut up." by Oct 14
"We already had an inkling of this when in a Bundestag speech Angela Merkel raised the issue of a Polish motorway being built by a Chinese firm and workers, with attractive financing but also European subsidies. Quite correctly, she mused about the opportunity to claim reciprocity from China and pry open its own public procurement markets." by Oct 14
La Chine investit la zone euro
La Chine vole au secours de la Grèce et de la zone euro. En visite officielle à Athènes, samedi, le premier ministre chinois, Wen Jiabao, a annoncé que son pays « va faire un grand effort pour soutenir les pays de la zone euro et la Grèce, afin de dépasser la crise économique internationale » . Outre la poursuite d’investissements massifs en Grèce (notamment dans les ports) et une augmentation des échanges commerciaux, il a promis que « la Chine participera à l’achat de nouvelles obligations grecques » quand le pays reviendra sur les marchés. Un véritable « vote de confiance » , comme l’a qualifié Luo Linquan, l’ambassadeur de Chine en Grèce. Une confiance qui tranche avec la frilosité des marchés financiers qui continuent à se défier non seulement de la Grèce, mais aussi de l’Irlande, de l’Espagne et du Portugal, leur crainte étant qu’un de ces pays fasse défaut, c’est-à-dire ne rembourse pas leur dette.
The EU and China: Ta
<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:FR; mso-fareast-language:FR;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> Did anybody notice the recent EU-China summit that took place at the end of November in Nanjing? No? The media seemed more concerned with the nominations at the Commission and EU Council. Yet the summit was seen as important enough to warrant Jose Manuel Barroso, along with Sweden's prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and foreign minister Carl Bildt, making the trip to see Premier Wen Jiabao.a joint statement of 2782 words despite the summit lasting only an hour and forty-five minutes. :=) by Jun 20