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Chongqing? That's good. Not Beijing please, traffic was hell last week when Merkel was there, I was stuck on the road for 2 hours.
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Amid Chinese tensions with U.S., French frigate visits China
BEIJING, Wed Oct 28, 2015
A French frigate has docked at a port in southern China on a four-day visit to China's South China Sea fleet, China's military said on Wednesday, amid tensions between China and United States over the disputed waters.
The Vendémiaire docked at Zhanjiang in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday morning for a four day "friendly visit", the official People's Liberation Army Daily said.
It will participate in a maritime exercise about accidental encounters at sea, and French and Chinese naval personnel will visit each others' ships and play soccer, the short report added.
The activities will "increase mutual understanding, trust and cooperation between the two nations' navies", it said.
The Vendémiaire is on its eighth visit to China, the newspaper added. It comes ahead of French President Francois Hollande's visit to China next week.
China has rebuked Washington for sending a U.S. guided-missile destroyer close to one of Beijing's man-made islands in the South China Sea, saying it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest.
France and the United States are both key members of NATO.
The USS Lassen's patrol on Tuesday was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built in the Spratly archipelago.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
BEIJING, Wed Oct 28, 2015
A French frigate has docked at a port in southern China on a four-day visit to China's South China Sea fleet, China's military said on Wednesday, amid tensions between China and United States over the disputed waters.
The Vendémiaire docked at Zhanjiang in the southern province of Guangdong on Tuesday morning for a four day "friendly visit", the official People's Liberation Army Daily said.
It will participate in a maritime exercise about accidental encounters at sea, and French and Chinese naval personnel will visit each others' ships and play soccer, the short report added.
The activities will "increase mutual understanding, trust and cooperation between the two nations' navies", it said.
The Vendémiaire is on its eighth visit to China, the newspaper added. It comes ahead of French President Francois Hollande's visit to China next week.
China has rebuked Washington for sending a U.S. guided-missile destroyer close to one of Beijing's man-made islands in the South China Sea, saying it had tracked and warned the ship and called in the U.S. ambassador to protest.
France and the United States are both key members of NATO.
The USS Lassen's patrol on Tuesday was the most significant U.S. challenge yet to the 12-nautical-mile territorial limits China claims around artificial islands it has built in the Spratly archipelago.
China claims most of the South China Sea, through which more than $5 trillion of world trade passes every year. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Taiwan have rival claims.
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Britain, Germany, France they come to China ! 
How the U.S isolate China, only Japan ? If such thing going on, U.S will face a worse situation, ur Allies start playing balance between China and U.S.
How the U.S isolate China, only Japan ? If such thing going on, U.S will face a worse situation, ur Allies start playing balance between China and U.S.
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US is pretty much on its own. Even Japan needs China.Britain, Germany, France they come to China !
If US keep provoking China in South China sea over some rocks all by itself, it meaningless.
China do not have to do anything.
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But the President is bound to end up in Beijing。
Damn I hope I can avoid Beijing when it happens, but the residents can't, sorry Beijing bros!
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Britain, Germany, France they come to China !
Lol Business/making money has NOTHING TO DO WITH ALLIANCES/POLITICS , especially not in today's globalised world. I already said that several times. We are partners not allies unlike with the U.S since we share the same security interests towards Russia's aggression and we are all NATO members/allies.
European powers U.K, France and Germany don't see China as a threat(rightly) since we don't really have any conflict of interests, but our intetests don't converge either.
Just like you and your Russian buddies, since you also claim such visits doesn't affect your close relations whatsoever with moscow(which i agree). So don't ever mix the two. If not Japan and the U.S will already be your biggest allies since you have farrrrrr deeper/bigger business/investment ties together than with any European country.lol
So we are merely catching up.
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