Unlike the Anglos, the French thinks its better to work with China instead of fighting it....
China and France signed their fourth round of demonstration projects on third-party market cooperation lately, with a total investment of more than $1.7 billion covering areas including infrastructure, environmental protection and new energy, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, announced on Monday.
The third-party markets include Africa as well as Central and Eastern Europe, and the methods of cooperation are diversified, including joint financing and joint investment, and projects where the Chinese side will be awarded engineering procurement construction contracts and France will be responsible for investing. Those projects are set to play an active role in social and economic development of the third parties.