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...reason, says China expert and director of research at France's Institute of International and Strategic Relations Jean-Vincent Brisset, is "because France has repeatedly shown itself to be the weak link in Europe by knuckling under to pressure when other nations push China back." The Chinese, Brisset says, "only respect those who stand up for themselves, which the British and Germans have done in their dealings with the Dalai Lama before, and even Poland - which is hosting the disputed event - is doing as well...
...both Sarkozy and his predecessor Jacques Chirac have demonstrated a willingness to bend on diplomatic, political, and human rights conflicts in order to protect trade, says Brisset. Things have grown worse since China's suppression of riots in Tibet in March, which prompted Sarkozy to call on Beijing to "end the violence" there. Sarkozy suggested he might boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics, a course of action taken by both Brown and Merkel. But after French companies in China weathered months of protests and boycotts by infuriated Chinese nationalists Sarkozy turned up at the Games opener claiming that...
...Brisset says China is now exploiting recent history to use France as a wedge with which to divide Europe, export-dependent China's second largest trading partner. "China faces real trouble on human rights, trade, the ecology, and how it has managed the economic and financial crisis, and it doesn't want further problems from Europe," Brisset says, noting that the E.U. recently introduced new tariffs on Chinese goods. "If Sarkozy recognizes China is attacking France to divide Europe, and insists the E.U. come up with a firm collective stand to replace weak bilateral accords, this could be an opportunity...
...soldiers are based; one trade union forecast the loss of 7,500 German jobs. "This is a serious loss for those regions," says Defense Minister Peter Struck. There was little criticism of the change in U.S. strategy. "Let's face it, the cold war is over," says Jean-Vincent Brisset, a military expert at France's Institute for International and Strategic Relations. "The U.S. forces came to save Europe, but their presence today doesn't fit with current doctrine." The larger issue is whether the recall, set to begin in 2006, will degrade a transatlantic alliance already damaged by Iraq...
Macabre Landscape. To Brisset in the French Alps, where sanatoria dot the landscape like shacks in a gold-rush town, come tuberculosis patients from all over the world. How many fail to return is suggested by the popular nickname of the place: "the cemetery of Europe." In this macabre mountain spot appears the novel's hero: Paul Davenant, a British World War II veteran, lately a Cambridge student, now sick and broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes...