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Why China Thinks France is the Weakest Link

From our colleague Bruce Crumley in Paris, a look at why China reacted so strongly to Nicolas Sarkozy's plan to meet with the Dalai Lama but did little after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's recent talks with British premier Gordon Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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    The world might has done more to help Chinese people if they had given up their greed for the cheap goods from China. It's really disgusting to see the dissemblers' appearance at the expensive opening ceremony on August, especially Bush, who was walking hand in hand with Hu, the biggest dictator.

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    Sounds like China just bully whoever they can bully, and leave the real bullies alone. This shows the real strength of China.

    Now that the world has finally stop demanding cheap goods from China, Chinese must be very happy about this financial crisis.

    While it is disgusting to see Bush in the expensive opening ceremony, it is wonderful to see China hosted such an expensive even, and Hu walked hand in hand with world leaders.

  • 3

    "John Smith", you did a great job!

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