China Spells Out Its Future Fears

BRUSSELS - While the press briefing given recently by the Chinese ambassador to the European office of the United Nations was not totally unprecedented, it was also not a matter of routine and the previous such briefing - which was also the first - was held in 2004.

So what prompted He Yafei to suddenly invite some 50 foreign journalists accredited to the United Nations for an on-the-record briefing on the subject of China and the global economic crisis

? The ambassador indirectly gave an answer to that question when he stated that the Chinese were actually not very good at managing their international public relations.

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