Rongji bogged down by rain at Waterloo

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Series Details 20/07/00, Volume 6, Number 29
Publication Date 20/07/2000
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Date: 20/07/2000

The recent appalling weather in central Europe has even got to Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji. Following a recent visit to European Commission President Romano Prodi, Rongji told a group of European business executives that he hoped his visit would lead to a wave of new investment in China. Otherwise, he said, the whole trip would be as much of a “Napoleonic fiasco” as his visit to the waterlogged battlefields of Waterloo.

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