A fan of controversy, the Chinese ambassador to France, Lu Shaye, is leaving

This time will be good. Announced about leaving for more than a year, the Chinese ambassador to France will, according to our information, leave his post by January 2025. Lu Shaye, 60, who arrived in France in 2019, must make the announcement on December 4 on the occasion of a “Sino-French friendship reception” celebrating the 60th anniversary of the establishment of relations between the two countries organized in the Chinese embassy in Paris. Contacted, she did not wish to respond to Challenges.

Arriving in France in 2019, Lu Shaye was the symbol of this uninhibited Chinese diplomacy, baptized Wolf Warrior (fighting wolf). The man who published a column denouncing “Western selfishness” and “white supremacism” when he was ambassador to Canada (2017-2019) distinguished himself in France with a series of vehement declarations: insult towards the sinologist Antoine Bondaz , vitriolic remarks against nursing staff in nursing homes accused of having “abandoned their position” in the midst of Covid, tweets approving messages describing them as “fascist” some French media…