
The Play China Didn’t Want Strasbourg to See
When China’s consulate pressured a French theater to cancel the Taiwanese production “This Is Not an Embassy,” it proved the play’s point more vividly than any performance could.

Les Amis de Wu Jianmin is a Paris-based cultural association, founded in 2017 in memory of Wu Jianmin (吳建民), who served as Chinese Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2003 and died in a road accident in Wuhan in June 2016. The association promoted Sino-French bilateral exchanges through an annual scholarship that apparently ran annually from 2017 to 2019, sending French students and researchers on two-week trips to China. The association also organizes public events in Paris, including educational forums and culture and tourism dialogues. The association co-organized an event with the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a body under the direct supervision of the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, in April 2026.
