France goes back on China's shopping list

After skipping over France twice this year on purchasing delegations, China will shop in the Western European nation late next month, a move that analysts said signals a return to their economic relationship.

The delegation will arrive in France on Nov 26, nine months after China passed France over on its first business delegation of Europe this year.

At the time, the relationship between the two nations had bottomed out due to French leader Nicolas Sarkozy's meeting with the Dalai Lama in December 2008.