for france, business’ only role is to make business

according to The Financial Time, Adam Jones, January 6, 2007:
human rights campaigners fear France has gone a step too far in its latest advice on dealing with Chinese tourists. It is estimated that 600,000 of the 1.7m Chinese tourists who visited Europe in 2005 came to France. The French government has published a guide entitled "Chinese tourists: how best to welcome them" in partnership with the Maison de la France tourism body. In a section on negotiating and doing business with the Chinese, the guide recommends that members of the French tourist industry avoid talking about Chinese politics, citing "the Tiananmen Square events" and "strategic questions about Taiwan or Tibet" as examples of topics that should not be broached.

Amnesty International France: "We deplore that, through fear of being deprived of Chinese tourism and missing out on a booming market, the French authorities are concealing the facts of what happened at Tiananmen or in Tibet".

The objection is unlikely to dent France's enthusiastic courting of the newly mobile Chinese. Léon Bertrand, tourism minister, said the goal was to make sure that they return to France after their first visit.