Correspondent in Asia.
In the hall of
“Literary Brilliance”
, Stéphane Séjourné gave the gong for the
“Versailles at the Forbidden City”
exhibition , in Beijing, celebrating the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between France and communist China, this Monday April 1st.
A flagship exhibition bringing together more than 150 objects illustrating the mutual fascination and exchanges over the centuries between the Kingdom of France and the Middle Kingdom, beyond the steppes of Eurasia, to better affirm in 2024 the "resumption
"
of Bilateral
“exchanges”
undermined by the pandemic, against a backdrop of geopolitical escalation in Ukraine and Gaza.
Diplomatic and commercial disputes
This project, postponed several times, is the high point of the year of
“culture and tourism”
, put forward by the head of French diplomacy to relaunch the delicate relationship with the second world power, while disputes diplomatic and commercial issues are accumulating behind the scenes, and hanging over the next visit of President Xi Jinping...
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