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Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Ms. Laure Mellerio Segalen in the Tian'anmen place of Beijing

Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et Mr. Ge Honglin (Mayor of Chengdu) during the Roundtable of Chengdu (2009)

Mr. Valéry Giscard d'Estaing et Mr. Xu Kuangdi at the Roundtable of Chengdu (2009)
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For centuries, the relations between France and China knew periods of mutual discoveries, conflicts, numerous cooperations, and an economic opening.
Of these exchanges were born multiple interactions based on solid affinities which reveal a high degree of intensity of the connection between the two countries: a particular attraction; a privileged relation based on deep resemblances; an opened and multidisciplinary vision.
However we notice that this relation often knows ups and downs, a disintegration which slows down the enrichment and the fluidity of the exchanges: an absence of global and coherent strategy of the relation; a lack of capitalization of the exchanges; incapacities in the knowledge and the mutual understanding.
In front of « multilateral and multipolar » presences which China displays henceforth on all the continents, France and China do not value enough their intrinsic relational potential.
The Victor Segalen Fondation intervenes at the key moment in the history of the relations between France and China, but also in the capacity and the will of each of these two countries to reinvent, to find a place in the world, to redefine a collective ambition by the development of a better cultural knowledge.
President Hu Jingtao does not say the other thing when he declares at the time of his state visit in France in November 2010:
" The important, it is to exceed, in our cooperation, the simple business-investment to create a partnership of equal to equal, to value our cultural assets with the aim of the greater intellectual and human exchanges, and to strengthen the strategic cooperation in front of global challenges."
> Interview of Laure Mellerio-Segalen by Xinhua Agency
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