On October 2, 2020, François Quentin, former head of the Huawei France Board and President of the Mines-Telecom Institute, General Eric de la Maisonneuve, Founder and President of the Strategy Society, and Alain Frachon, journalist at Le Monde and former foreign correspondent in Washington D.C., joined The Bridge Tank’s team for an internal work meeting focusing on China’s future and the different evolutions the Sino-European relationship could go through.

The Bridge Tank was represented by its chairman Joël Ruet and members of its board: Irina Bokova, former Director General of UNESCO, Stéphane Gompertz, former French Ambassador to Austria and Ethiopia, Jean-Claude Beaujour, lawyer and Vice-President of the France-Amériques Foundation, Vincent Perrin, former OECD representative to China and French Trade Minister Advisor, and Jasmine Zerinini Cowper-Coles, former senior advisor to the Secretary General, Secrétariat général de la Défense et de la Sécurité nationale (Prime Minister’s Office) & council member of the Chatham House Council.

This meeting took place under Chatham House rules.