Chirac is French, of course he works for the French interests.
Look, he just signed about 5 billion USD contracts with Chinese companies including high-speed trains and airbuses, win-win, good deal.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2070508.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2070440.htm France's Alstom, China ink $1.3b contracts http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_2071813.htm Economy is good, politics is nonsense:
Mainland's forex reserves reach $470b:
China's foreign exchange reserve grows rapidly.
By the end of June, China gained more than 470 billion US dollars in foreign currency reserves. The State Administration of Foreign Exchange reports the total reserves increased by about 67 billion US dollars from last year's total.