In the following video clip, which was originally posted by Global Times, and which we embed below, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of La France Insoumise, France’s main left wing party, insists that his country must get along well with China. He firmly upholds the one China principle regarding Taiwan and says that the nineteenth century is over, “when we turned up with our English friends and destroyed the Summer Palace… and forced the Chinese to buy opium. This period of colonialism is behind us.”
Mélenchon, who has announced his fourth bid for the French presidency, was being interviewed by the French news channel La Chaîne Info (LCI).
Mélenchon’s book, ‘Now, the People! Revolution in the Twenty-First Century’, has just been published in paperback by Verso.
