Yuan-boat diplomacy

The head of the European monetary authority stepped off the plane at Beijing airport, and was transported by a high-speed train faster than France’s TGV, to the centre of Beijing. There he hopped into a waiting limousine and was driven through traffic that was waved aside by motorcycle outriders, to Tiananmen Square, where he had been given an audience in the Great Hall of the People. Mr Europe wondered how to make his a dignified mission.

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