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Kebau
Joined: 23 Mar 2007
Posts: 415
Location: Canada
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 Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: Nicolas Sarkozy, please don't come to the Olympics |
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Nicolas Sarkozy is persona non grata at the Olympics
Please stay at home with your beautiful model wife. The majority of the Chinese people would not like to see you at all at the Games. You are a disgrace to the French people and the office you currently hold.
China opposes linking Tibet to Olympics
| Quote: | China on Tuesday expressed resolute opposition to connecting Tibet-related issues with the Beijing Olympic Games.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao made the remarks in response to a question concerning French President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent comments about the Dalai Lama.
Sarkozy said on Monday he would attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics if the latest contact between China's central government and the private representatives of the Dalai Lama achieve progress. He would meet with the Dalai Lama in early August. |
From BBC:
French President Nicolas Sarkozy - who has threatened to boycott the opening ceremony of the Games over Tibet - said he believed the talks were "progressing well".
"If they continue to progress and if the Dalai Lama and the Chinese president recognise this progress, then all obstacles to my participation (in the ceremony) will have been lifted," he said.
Nicolas Sarkozy believes the world will stop at his command. What arrogance!! Do we hear Freedom fries again and not French fries. The Americans have led a strong boycott of everything French after the French voiced resistance to the American-led invasion of Iraq. Is China united again to tell this "Napoleon" a thing or two about interfering in the internal affair of China.
| Quote: | "The Tibet issue is China's internal affair, and the contact between the central government and the Dalai Lama's private representatives is an internal matter," Liu said.
"We oppose some country leaders meeting with the Dalai Lama in any form, oppose connecting Tibet-related issues with the Beijing Olympics and politicizing the Olympics," the spokesman said.
The Beijing Olympic Games will be a feast for 1.3 billion Chinese and people around the world, Liu said, adding that to hold a successful Games is the common wish of China as well as the rest of the world. |
http://chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2008-07/01/content_6810938.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7480921.stm
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XP
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 565
Location: Beautiful Island
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: Poll confirms Sarkozy is not welcomed at Olympics |
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Sarkozy threats are futile and offer little help to the "progress" in negotiations at all. On the contrary, he has antagonized more Chinese people as the latest poll showed.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/03/content_6815498.htm
| Quote: | | In an online poll conducted by Sina.com.cn, 88 percent of respondents said they viewed Sarkozy's remarks as "extremely unfriendly", while an equivalent proportion said they do not welcome his presence at the opening ceremony. More than 100,000 people have so far taken part in the poll, which is ongoing, Sina.com.cn claimed. |
China maintains a consistent official position with regard to not mixing the games with politics. They don't need the French president to impose his views that are largely influenced by mood swings and short-sighted gains.
| Quote: | Wu Yikang, chairman of the Shanghai Institute of European Studies, said Sarkozy's inconsistency regarding China is not up to the standard of a thoughtful and responsible statesman.
"Sarkozy's gesture of setting conditions for his attendance at the Beijing Olympics is an unfriendly move toward China. It shows his immaturity and carelessness as a politician," Wu said in an interview with the Beijing-based Global Times.
"The Chinese government will certainly not yield to his move," Wu said.
During a visit to China last year, during which the two countries signed business deals worth billions of euros, Sarkozy said he wanted to "book a seat" for the Beijing Olympics.
But after the March riots in Lhasa, the French leader said he had not ruled out the possibility of boycotting the Games.
"Some people are acting as if China is begging them to attend the Games," Wu said.
"But no one can achieve anything positive by playing the Olympic card or by linking the Games to politics." |
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XP
Joined: 19 Mar 2007
Posts: 565
Location: Beautiful Island
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 10:14 am Post subject: French may have to pay the price for wishy washy policy |
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No thanks to Sarkozy, the French economy is suffering because the promises and economic policies he kicked off failed to take off.
Often times, politicians would use foreign policy rhetoric to serve as diversion for their domestic policy failures.
Now it looks like foreign earnings may be reduced as Sarkozy has infuriated the Chinese population. There has been a sharp decline in the number of Chinese tourists to France and the boycott of French products since the attack on a torch bearer, threats and allegations made by some French government officials.
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smalltok
Joined: 20 Mar 2007
Posts: 264
Location: USA
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Little Egret
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
Posts: 500
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:33 am Post subject: Sarkozy then and now |
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See my first post Jan 15, 2008 on Nicolas Sarkozy where I asked at the end: “Is he fit to be the country’s president?
Remember what these forumers said about Sarkozy then.
Smalltok wrote: | Quote: | | Sarkozy is a politician and I believe we should judge him by his political achievement and not by his casanova achievement. |
Poor Man wrote: | Quote: | | What really count are his dualistic economic initiatives have been effective and the French people love it. |
http://oneworldtalk.freeforums.org/has-hollywood-come-to-france-t749.html
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Poor Man
Joined: 03 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 1:56 pm Post subject: Sarkozy is a weak leader |
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Back then, the French welcomed Sarkozy with his bold promises. They loved his showmanship and tough talk.
He was loved by the people but the honeymoon was short when he failed to deliver or prove his worth.
Unfortunately, the French want things to fall nicely in place without any hard work or austerity measures. They are partly to be blamed as much as Sakorzy is responsible for his poor report card. Sakozy has been moving forward and backward in a tango or tangle, excuse me. They could not sustain a strong leadership that would set its minds to more predictable and less zig zag path in economic management and foreign policies.
Sarkozy simply can't be his own man. French love to revolt. Even the head of state has to shift according to the French political winds, which is detrimental to the country's interests.
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Little Egret
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
Posts: 500
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject: Carla Bruni |
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So, Poor Man, you must be amongst those Frenchmen in the crowd who, in the beginning, loved their new president through their eyes of his pretty ex-model wife Carla Bruni.
Carla Bruni
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