PARIS, April 15 — The French foreign ministry said yesterday it had summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest a string of controversial comments by Beijing's embassy in Paris on the coronavirus. “I made clear my disapproval of certain recent comments when the ambassador... was summoned this...
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian at the weekly session of questions to the government at the National Assembly in Paris, France,March 31, 2020. — Yoan Valat/pool pic via Reuters
China's embassy to France has been leading a high-profile public relations campaign in recent weeks to vaunt the country's success in largely quelling the coronavirus while criticising the handling of the crisis by Western countries. But most pointedly, the diplomat accused workers at nursing homes in France of “abandoning their posts overnight... and leaving their residents to die of hunger and disease.”
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