Well-spoken speech given by Li Huan at Paris rally


"我们说:祖国受委屈了,我们也受委屈了,我们宁愿自己多受些委屈,也不愿意祖国受一点委屈。 "

"我们这些在海外的留学生和华人华侨都真心希望祖国强大!希望每一个中国人都抓紧每一分钟时间,做好自己的事情,中国只要强大了,没有人敢欺负咱们!"
"We, the overseas students and Chinese true-heartedly hope our motherland gets big and powerful ! Hope each and every Chinese will seize the time ,do our own things well, only if china gets strong, no one'd dare to bully us!"

"要感谢西方媒体,是他们让我们更团结!"
"Appreciate the western media, is them who make us more united !"

*translated literally.......apologize for any grammar mistakes or the formation of sentences



Thousands of Chinese students and expatriates demonstrated on April 19 in Paris' Place de la Republique, to support the upcoming Beijing Olympics and denounce sections of the French media for their distorted reports on the March 14 Lhasa riots.



Li Huan, a Chinese student, delivered a long and powerful speech in fluent French at the rally. The speech, delivered in mellow and passionate tones, combined philosophical wisdom with logical thinking, and was cheered long and loud by the Chinese students and expatriates.

It also amazed and won the admiration of the French people. The speaker, from Xi'an, capital of China's Shanxi Province, is a post-graduate student in the University of Lille II. He had previously hotly debated Chinese issues with a French reporter on local TV. Li's fluent French and profound knowledge won him respect and restored the dignity of the Chinese people. His speech has had a sensational effect among Chinese students in France.

The speech was written in French by Li Huan himself. Li said he had recently spent most of his spare time reading material related to Tibet and had become something of an expert in the field. He said he was motivated by love of China and unwillingness to see his motherland misrepresented.

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