With the media whirl generated by Donald Trump tweets, England difficulties created by the consequences of its choice in favor of Brexit and the fall in love of the world opinion with the new French president, the actuality relative to China has been relegated in the middle distance. The sovereign debt notation downgrade by Moody’s has had no consequences and the numerous foreign visits of its leaders most of the time followed by the signature of major projects financed by Beijing didn’t attract more attention. At the end of this month, in Dalian, a major harbor located at ...

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Invalidating once more pessimistic forecasts made by observers, especially in France, Chinese economy had a good start in 2017. Growth rate reached 6.9% during the first quarter, significantly above the annual 6.5% target assigned by the government. It is not the only good news. The reversal of the American administration position is not less important. During his electoral campaign and before taking his new responsibilities, Donald Trump never missed the opportunity to denounce China negative role. He had promised to introduce heavy taxes on its exports to the United States and to condemn currency manipulations on the Yuan ...

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Energy transitions issues have taken hold of the French presidential campaign. Some, like Jean-Luc Mélenchon or Benoît Hamon are reducing it to the stigmatization of nuclear energy, they propose to abandon through the closing of power units in safe technical condition. Others, like Emmanuel Macron or François Fillon, propose a diversification of the electricity mix but are hostile to shale gas exploration. All of them think energy saving investments are the panacea to reduce unemployment, but without defining convincing financial solutions, due to the diversity of the situations.

France is not an isolated case. The American presidential ...

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