China’s questionable earlier ambassador to France Lu Shaye has really been assigned to a outstanding weblog submit accountable of European occasions, Beijing revealed Thursday.
Lu was a preferred “Wolf Warrior” mediator– a label provided to people who react emphatically to film critics thought to be aggressive toChina
He triggered outrage all through his interval in France when he examined the sovereignty of earlier Soviet states, informing a broadcaster they “don’t have effective status under international law”.
Lu, that provided in Paris from 2019 for five years, has really been assigned Special Representative for European Affairs, Beijing’s worldwide ministry knowledgeable a traditional press instruction.
He will definitely “assist and coordinate the management” of issues connecting to Europe and “conduct consultations and exchanges with European countries and European Union (EU) institutions”, a spokesperson acknowledged.
His precursor Wu Hongbo made many sees to European nations and talked in assist of the Chinese federal authorities on points connecting to the world.
Lu’s focus on earlier Soviet states will not be the one outstanding disputes he has really been related to.
In January 2019, as ambassador to Canada, he implicated Ottawa of “white supremacy” for requiring the launch of two Canadians restrained in China, days after Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese nationwide and Huawei exec, was apprehended in Canada on the demand of the United States.
In 2021, France’s worldwide ministry condemned “unacceptable comments” from Lu consisting of “insults and threats toward lawmakers and a French researcher”.
Lu had really struck Antoine Bondaz, a China skilled on the Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS) think-tank, as a “small-time hoodlum,” a “crazed hyena” and “ideological troll” with “anti-Chinese” positions after he grumbled concerning Chinese stress on French legislators wishing to see Taiwan.
Lu is a “high-ranking diplomat who knows the situation in Europe well” that may actually add to “the stable and healthy development of China-EU relations”, the worldwide ministry acknowledged Thursday.
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