Would the Chinese stage have become absolutely impossible to circumvent in the way towards the Elysium? Twenty-six years after the candidate François Mitterrand, in 1981, Ségolène Royal was to land this Saturday morning in Beijing, for a four days visit. A quarter century later, to forge presidential stature and international credibility in a country “where the changes are strongest and the interrogations more the sharp”, according to the socialist candidate in the Elysium, seems, more than ever, an obliged passage. At the same time because of the geopolitical weight of the popular Republic, but especially of its economic and commercial development, from the delocalizations to the surge on Europe of manufactured goods made in Clouded. From where, for the deputy of Two-Sevres, the “will to include/understand”… As it had expressed at the time of its preceding voyage to the Middle East which had caused a polemic in France.

The approach of Ségolène Royal thus rejects the psychosis of the Chinese danger: “One should not be afraid of China which develops, if its problems are recognized and controlled. It is necessary more to fear one continent which does not develop, like Africa. ” So much on the question of exports than about that of the delocalizations, she wants to study “how France and Europe can better benefit from the Chinese development. France, exporting power, cannot be only in one position of fear compared to China”. But, “first political leader to ask to meet a Chinese Minister for the Environment”, of to believe it, it intends to also lean on the “control of an economic development striking down, in particular at the ecological level”.

Nobel Prize. Other passages obliged S: the question of the human rights, and the condition of the women. From where the presence in the delegation, in addition to members of his staff and three presidents of regional executives Jacques Auxiette (the Country-of-the-Loire), Jean-Yves Drian (Brittany) and Jean-Jack Queyranne (the Rhone-Alps), of the lawyer Jean-Pierre Mignard, friend of the Holland-Royal couple. The candidate, who met several personalities to approach this point, of which the Nobel Prize of literature Gao Xingjian, exiled since 1988 and naturalized French, prevented: if it intends “to very clearly say a certain number of things”, it does not go there “into donneuse from lessons”. She should nevertheless evoke the future of Gao Zhisheng, defender of the cyberdissidents and the clandestine Christians, condemned in December to three years of imprisonment.

Olympic Games. The champion of the PS will visit the Large Wall, the prohibited City and a site of the Olympic Games of 2008 and will meet Chinese students and an association of migrant women. But the name of its political interlocutors except a person in charge for the PCC, which launched the invitation in Ségolène Royal was not revealed. “It rests to the Chinese leaders to announce the names of the political leaders who receive me”, it underlined.