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It must then travel to Tokyo to demonstrate the solidarity of France to Japan. Nicolas Sarkozy, the economic forum in Davos, January 27, 2011.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy began Wednesday in Beijing a mini-Asian tour that will take him Thursday at Nanjing (eastern China) for a seminar on the monetary system and Tokyo, three weeks after the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeastern Japan.

Arriving early afternoon in the Chinese capital, Sarkozy should immediately meet the French in the new Chinese Embassy before a meeting and dinner with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao.

According to the entourage of the Head of State, these conversations should focus primarily on bilateral issues and the folders "hot" of world events, including the international military operation under way against the Libyan regime of Colonel Gaddafi pushed by France and Great Britain but heavily criticized by China.

Following his meeting with Chinese leader, Nicolas Sarkozy was immediately set sail on Nanking, the ancient imperial capital of the east, where it will start work Thursday morning seminar finance ministers , central bank governors and experts of the G20 countries on reforming the international monetary system.

This day of reflection should lead to the first tracks of reform, which Mr Sarkozy has made a priority of "his" chair of the forum of the twenty largest economies in the world.

As soon as her opening speech, he will head to Tokyo for the last and most dramatic step in this journey Express.

While Japanese authorities are struggling in the midst of a nuclear disaster caused by the massive earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on March 11, the President of the G8 and G20 wanted to visit Japan to demonstrate the solidarity of France and countries in these two forums.

During this short visit, the first in Japan since his election in 2007 except for participation in the G8 summit in Toyako in 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy will hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and meet the French community in Japan before returning Paris.