
I think that globalization works like vases communicating… That is not to react to China, or France, but is actually a global awareness to expect progress. But how will we eat to get there .
There are a lot of investigation in preparation of these reports. I realized all of these subjects with Abel Segretin, RFI correspondent in Beijing. He lived there for eight years and speaks Chinese. It was very important not to be accompanied by a Chinese translator. First we could put in danger. A Chinese journalist has been beaten at the point of being in a coma for fifteen days after our arrival. We do not risk the worst that deportation to France, but before the Olympics he could not get anything serious to French journalists.
In addition, a translator could be a police officer or an informant. Contact with people we met could have been more difficult… The fact that we were two strangers was, I think, important in the confidence that we could make the peasants and miners we met.