Chapter 931: Corpse Vegetarian Meal
The French top brass seemed to have been too slow to react this time, and reporters were broadcasting live here for more than an hour before its foreign minister and the mayor of Paris arrived.
After greeting Li Guangyu, the minister specially presided over the press conference on the spot.
"Once again, I sincerely apologize for the harm caused to the yellow race around the world by the extreme statements of a very small number of people in our country, and their words are only personal opinions and do not represent our government and the vast majority of French citizens," he said.
We have always been committed to establishing friendly and cooperative relations with Asian countries, and we have absolutely no contempt for the governments and citizens of any country. β
β¦β¦
Listening to what the French Foreign Minister said, this group of demonstrators was extremely depressed, believing that they were serving the interests of the country and its people, but now the government considers them to be saboteurs of national interests, and even defines some of them as extremists.
They are arrogant and obviously unwilling to accept such a reality, they France is one of the most powerful countries in the West, why should they apologize to those poor and chaotic countries in Asia, are they wrong in what they say? Such words are not unique to today.
No matter how the times change, no matter how rapid the economic development of Asia is, and no matter how much success these yellow countries in Asia have made, in the white country, there are always some people who look down on the yellow race from the bottom of their hearts and stubbornly feel that the yellow race is naturally several levels lower than them.
The main reason why there is such a big uproar today is that these people are demonstrating against Lee Guangyu, the head of the Lee consortium, who is a very influential figure in the world, and naturally has a news focus.
This is also the reason why these foreign TV and newspaper reporters came so quickly, no matter what happened, as long as it involved Li Guangyu, then it would attract the attention of countless people.
It's nothing to just say some discriminatory words in private, and when it is broadcast live on many TV stations and interviewed by reporters from dozens of newspapers, they are still shouting racist words, which will bring serious political turmoil.
Moreover, this incident is likely to cause foreign capital to avoid the French market, especially Asian capital, and will also affect the enterprises of French companies in Asia and the cooperation with Asian enterprises.
The reason why they came so late was mainly because they had just attended an emergency meeting to discuss how to solve the problem.
Immediately after the Foreign Minister's words fell, a reporter asked: "Mr. Minister, do you want to express the meaning of some of the words of the protesters against the Lee Consortium in this demonstration?"
The close relationship between the Lee consortium and the right-wing camp is well known in France, and just last night, Lee Kwang Woo held talks with Prime Minister Jacques Chirac.
This morning, some demonstrators verbally attacked the Lee consortium outside the Regal Hotel Group, which could not but make some people think of it.
The leftist camp has always insisted on state capital, and over the years it has nationalized many enterprises, such as Renault, which have become completely state-owned enterprises.
This time, Chirac Chen was prime minister and occupied a majority of seats in parliament, which led to the emergence of left-right co-governance in the French government, and the Chirac camp advocated just the opposite of Mitterrand's camp, proposing the privatization of the first batch of 92 companies and groups.
Lee Guang-woo was invited by Chirac to come to France, but these marchers demanded that Lee Guang-woo and the Lee consortium get out of France, which was not only a slap in the face of Lee Guangyu and the Lee consortium, but also a slap in the face of the right-wing camp.
The foreign minister does not know who instigated the demonstrations, but he will never let the incident be linked to the French government and political parties.
He responded: "I have just made it very clear that this incident is only the personal behavior of a very small number of people, and our government has always welcomed the arrival of Mr. Lee, and the Prime Minister has come to hold talks with Mr. Lee last evening, and Mr. President will personally meet with Mr. Lee Guangyu this afternoon to promote cooperation between the two sides." β
The reporters know quite well that Mitterrand and the Lee consortium have never been all the way, and the Lee consortium, which is a staunch supporter of the right, would be good if the leftist camp did not suppress the Lee consortium, and the cooperation between the two sides is only afraid that it will be more difficult.
The Lee consortium is a private consortium that likes to hold the industry into its own hands, while the leftist camp is just the opposite, they want to keep the main industries in the hands of the government, and the natural opposition of interests makes it difficult for the two parties to become friends.
If it weren't for this this incident, I'm afraid that Mitterrand would not have met with Li Guangyu at all.
At the time of the interview, the mayor of Paris was trying to persuade the demonstrators to disband immediately.
One of the demonstrators, who estimated that his diploma was quite good, said: "You are selling the country's assets, you are selling the country, this is harming the interests of the country and the people, fattening the wallets of the consortium forces behind you, and you will definitely be nailed to the pillar of shame in history in the future." β
The new mayor of Paris, who is also one of the leading figures in the right-wing camp and who is also close to the Lee consortium, is not to blame for the demonstrators attacking him.
He said loudly: "Do you know that some state-owned enterprises need less government subsidies every year, and do you know how many people in some state-owned enterprises are eating in the corpse position?
I tell you, if we don't carry out economic reforms, our government will go bankrupt, and then inflation will happen, the franc will depreciate, and the whole people will suffer. Don't listen to a few slogans and think that they are really thinking about your interests, maybe they just want to raise more moths that erode the interests of the country. β
These naΓ―ve and enthusiastic young people think that they are fighting for the interests of the people, but they do not know that they are just a poor pawn to be used.
They have been brainwashed by some of the ideas they have learned, and they are completely ignorant of the sinister nature of the political struggle in France, and in order to consolidate the power of their camp in the government, they are unwilling to face up to problems even if they know that there are problems in some areas, and they will even find other excuses to cover them up.
There are thousands of reasons, the impact of the world economic situation, the targeting of local governments, and the joint suppression of external enterprises, that is, they will not look for their own reasons.
This time, Chirac came to power and was ready to take action against some enterprises, which completely violated the interests of those who were in the position of vegetarians, and they knew very well that as long as the enterprises became private, they would be fired, and their abilities were not qualified to sit in such a position at all.
Private enterprises are about the capable and the mediocre, and their most important thing is not ability, but relationship, the advent of this wave of privatization, completely made these people nervous, they try to prevent such a thing from happening, they do not want to lose the power they are now.
Although these people are not good at the management and development of enterprises, they have a very thorough understanding of people's hearts, and they will never let themselves stand in the foreground to oppose them, and some ignorant and fearless and some ultra-nationalist and patriotic people have become the objects of their co-optation and use.
In particular, some young people who are more sympathetic to leftist ideas are enthusiastic and impulsive, and they are to charge forward to get the government to dispel the idea of privatization of state-owned enterprises.
Wonderful Book House