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Beijing urges France to respect one-China principle during high-level talks

China and France must respect each other’s core interests, particularly the one-China principle, and strengthen a strategic partner…
#France #FR #Europe #EU #Beijing #BertrandDumont #China #China'sMinistryofCommerce #China'sMinistryofForeignAffairs #EmmanuelBonne #emmanuelmacron #EuropeanUnion #FrenchSenate #MiddleEast #OldSummerPalace #Taiwan #unsecuritycouncil #WangYi
https://www.europesays.com/france/13017/

Remains of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China

https://piefed.social/c/historyruins/p/1740121/remains-of-the-old-summer-palace-beijing-china

Remains of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China

Remains of the Old Summer Palace, Beijing, China

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"...suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building."

Victor Hugo writing about the Old Summer Palace, before it was ransacked, looted, and burned to the ground in 1860.

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"...suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building."

Victor Hugo writing about the Old Summer Palace, before it was ransacked, looted, and burned to the ground in 1860.

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#antiques

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"...suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building."

Victor Hugo writing about the Old Summer Palace, before it was ransacked, looted, and burned to the ground in 1860.

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#antiques

@bookstodon
2/
"...suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building."

Victor Hugo writing about the Old Summer Palace, before it was ransacked, looted, and burned to the ground in 1860.

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#antiques

@bookstodon
2/
"...suppose in a word a sort of dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace, such was this building."

Victor Hugo writing about the Old Summer Palace, before it was ransacked, looted, and burned to the ground in 1860.

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#antiques

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"Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks..."

>cont. ➡️

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#OldSummerPalace
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"Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks..."

>cont. ➡️

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#OldSummerPalace
#VictorHugo

@bookstodon

"Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks..."

>cont. ➡️

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#VictorHugo

@bookstodon

"Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks..."

>cont. ➡️

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#VictorHugo

@bookstodon

"Build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, and porcelain, frame it with cedar wood, cover it with precious stones, drape it with silk, make it here a sanctuary, there a harem, elsewhere a citadel, put gods there, and monsters, varnish it, enamel it, gild it, paint it, have architects who are poets build the thousand and one dreams of the thousand and one nights, add gardens, basins, gushing water and foam, swans, ibis, peacocks..."

>cont. ➡️

#China
#OldSummerPalace
#VictorHugo

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