France's President Hollande confuses Japan and China

FrenchFrench President Francois Hollande has made an embarrassing slip of the tongue, speaking in French at a news conference in Tokyo, reports the BBC.

Referring to the Algerian hostage crisis in January, in which 10 Japanese people were killed, he said he had expressed "the condolences of the French people to the Chinese people".

He did not correct his mistake.

Relations between Japan and China are often frosty, coloured by history and by more recent territorial disputes.

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