Brussels:  French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose ties with China were strained by his recent meeting with the Dalai Lama, said today he would find ways to talk to Beijing without renouncing "European values".

Sarkozy told journalists he aimed to find "the means to have a calm dialogue with China," but "not at the price of renouncing our own European values."

"Having good or bad relations with a partner is not about letting oneself being told what to do," Sarkozy said at the end of a two-day EU summit he hosted in Brussels.

Beijing scrapped an EU-China due to be held at the beginning of the month after Sarkozy lined up talks with the Dalai Lama in Gdansk, northern Poland.

Source : PTI