This month, the Post’s Xiaofei Xu sat down with Deng Li, China’s ambassador to France and Monaco, for an in-depth and wide-ranging interview. In part one, Deng outlines China’s diplomatic strategy in Europe.
Deng’s remarks came amid what Beijing described as a “once-in-a-century” shift in the global landscape that created risks and uncertainties, further complicated by the volatility of United States policies after the change of administration in January.
“If you want the world to be stable, then you should follow what our President Xi Jinping calls an ‘equal and orderly multipolar world’ and ‘universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalisation’. I think Europe is now facing a choice in this regard,” Deng said.
“I’ve told the French that, just like this table, it needs at least three legs to be stable,” Deng said. “If Europe has this ambition, it should be able to [become a leg], but whether Europe wants to is a question that only they can answer.”
