Vice-Premier Didier Reynders and the Chairman of the Chamber of Representatives Herman De Croo have both been called for an audience with Vice-President Zeng Qinghong. In the course of one week. That’s quite a big honor.
Reynders didn’t even come to China as Belgium’s Vice-Premier but as Chairman of the Mouvement Réformateur (MR). His host in China was the International Department of the Communist Party.
De Croo of course got a meeting with NPC-Chairman Wu Bangguo because he is his counterpart. But he also got to see VP Zeng as a bonus.
In a way it is recognition of the importance China attaches to good relations with Belgium. It also shows the Chinese know who counts in Belgium. Prince Philip and Flemish ‘minister-president’ Leterme never met anyone that high in the Chinese hierarchy.
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