French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian summoned the Chinese Ambassador to France Lu Shaye. Previous NextChina has downplayed a diplomatic spat between Paris and Beijing over a Chinese embassy report implying that France abandoned elderly patients infected with the coronavirus, leaving them to die. Le Drian sidestepped the questions, citing the remarks by China's Foreign Ministry spokesman on Wednesday. The response came after French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian summoned China’s ambassador to France to express his “clear disapproval” of recent comments over how France is dealing with the coronavirus crisis. In a tweet issued yesterday, the Chinese embassy in Paris clarified that the incidents of patients being left to die after being abandoned by care workers occurred in Spain, not France.

Source: The Standard April 16, 2020 03:49 UTC