He is maybe the French leader who had received Chinese delegations the most.
I do not remember how many times we had shot “round table” images in his office when he met Chinese officers, ministers etc.
This time I went to his office to be shot
Of course we talked mainly about his trip in China right after […]

Last time I had a nice interview by walking on Champs-Elysées with Raffarin, the other “good friend” of China besides Chirac, was in November, right before his plane with the new elected French President for China.
And this time, still a trip for cooperation and friendship, he became the “messenger” of the French President, situation […]

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=3n5IflGGIas

On Tuesday two weeks before, during the press conference presented by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, when he was being asked his opinion about the idea of boycot the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing, Kouchner said “interesting” because it sounds “less negative than boycot the whole games……” all the media were […]

The first Chinese official ever in French media after almost 2 weeks:
http://www.europe1.fr/politique/videos/1324996/Jean-Pierre-Elkabbach-recoit-L-interview-de-Qu-Xing.html

I’ve got several phone calls from some French Televisions for inviting me to join their programs in last one week. Of course, all were about the Tibet and the Olympic games of Beijing.
Well, I have to say that the Olympics had never been used as much as tools of politics in its whole history till […]

Friday afternoon, right before the Eastern Holiday, the pre-candidate John Mc Cain arrived in France.
We arrived 15minutes before his arrival in Elysée, as usual, only find a long queue of the journalists, some of them even just ran from Matignon, where the senator just received by the French Prime Minister.
“I did not feel the spring […]

I was waked up by a sms from Taiwan this morning: good news!
It’s done. They have a new Président, from the blue camp of KMT, a former student from the University of Havard.
When he was still the mayor of Taiwan, two years ago, I’ve got an exclusive interview with him in Paris, where he made […]

Just came back from the celebration party in the City Hall which still named Delanoë.
Less interest of voting: in every 3 French, there is one who didn’t vote;
Less interest of promotion: the candidate of UMP, Mme Françoise de Panafieu even cancelled the interview one day before our appointment last week;
Less difference of the percentage: 2% […]

Five days, Paris-Lyon-Paris, with a fully booked schedule.
I chose to follow him the first and the last day.
Last time when I said hello to him at the gate of a grand hotel in Paris, he was still the Prime Minister, this time, the President of the country, which I heard already several times in […]