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. Completely Domesticated. "Merkel in China" by Sanjaya Baru. Exit from comment view mode.
Click to hide this space 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. Indeed, her China trip should be seen as an effort to assert leadership across the eurozone.
At home, Merkel recently sent out a clear message to her critics that Germany must pay a price for eurozone leadership. While it required courage to take such a tough stance, doing so helped to bolster her position at home and throughout the eurozone. The eurozone (and probably the EU) cannot be saved in Greece or Finland if it cannot be saved in Germany. Within hours of declaring her leadership at home, Merkel announced her visit to Beijing. Revoir la politique chinoise de l'UE ?... - Alcidé Pingouin - Fr. A global policy, François Godement. A global China policy, pdf. WikiLeaks: Leaked letter raises questions over US ‘snooping’ on friendly powers - World news, News.
By Paul Connolly – 31 May 2011 US diplomats ‘obtained’ a confidential letter on Iraq policy from the EU’s two top foreign policy chiefs to the President of the Council of Ministers, a leaked US embassy cable reveals.
The letter, written by Javier Solana and Chris Patten, described highly-sensitive details of a controversial EU decision to participate in the rebuilding of Iraq. American officials spoke of ‘obtaining’ the letter 24 hours after it had been sent to Brian Cowen, then President of the Council of Ministers, the EU’s highest governmental body. The apparent leaking of the letter, discovered in a Belfast Telegraph assessment of a fresh tranche of the WikiLeaks cables, will raise questions about US snooping on friendly powers including the nations of the European Union. The cable, originating with from the American embassy in Brussels and with the identification number 17718, quotes extensively from the confidential letter. Click here to visit our WikiLeaks section and read more. 05BRUSSELS2840, EU RECEIVES DEFENSE DEPARTMENT REPORT ON CHINA. Making sense of Europe's puzzling China policy. Comment l’empire du Milieu fait les yeux doux à la belle Hellène. Papandreou et Wen Jiabao Après l’Afrique, c’est désormais à la Grèce que la Chine a dévoilé ses charmes tout en yuans sonnants et trébuchants.
Pas farouche, en ces temps difficiles, la belle Hellène a immédiatement succombé. L’empire du Milieu a largement éprouvé ses méthodes en Afrique, investissant le continent par ses pays les plus affaiblis, prioritairement des domaines abandonnés par les anciennes puissances coloniales, en particulier le secteur des infra-structures et des matières premières. Les échanges entre l'Afrique et la Chine ont été multipliés par dix depuis 2000, dépassant allègrement les 100 milliards de dollars. Entamant ce week-end une tournée européenne, ce n’est pas par hasard si le premier Ministre Chinois, Wen Jiabao, bien décidé à renforcer ses positions dans le pays, a choisi de poser son premier pied sur le sol grec. La ruée vers les ports Les investissements chinois dans le Monde selon The Heritage Foundation La Chine fait le boulot que l'UE n'a pas su faire.
La Chine investit la zone euro. La Chine vole au secours de la Grèce et de la zone euro. En visite officielle à Athènes, Europe needs to stop. The EU and China: Ta.