The article:
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2013-06/17/content_16629162.htm
Vocabulary to help you understand the article:
a trend - something that is becoming more and more common.
to be harassed - if someone harasses you, he/she bothers you or does things to upset or harm you emotionally.
to spark - to cause
to provoke outrage - to cause or spark outrage. Outrage is extreme anger at something which is wrong.
oenology - is the study of wine and wine-making.
assaulted - attacked.
alleged attackers - they seem to be the attackers but it hasn't been proved yet.
intoxicated - drunk. They had too much alcohol to drink.
in custody - the police have them in a jail.
xenophobia - pronounced: zee no FO bia, means a hatred of strangers or foreigners. I would argue this isn't xenophobia, it is racism (when one racial group hates another racial group).
elevated the outrage - made the outrage more intense.
to be targets - French people seem to think that Chinese students or travelers are like 'targets' that can be aimed at and hurt. A target is literally something you shoot at.
he ensured the safety of Chinese people - he promised the safety of Chinese people.
to condemn the school's failure - they strongly criticized the school for not keeping the Chinese students safe.
a decline in domestic enrollment - French students are not enrolling in these wine schools as much as they used to. Domestic means "local" or "in one's own country."
to have second thoughts - to reconsider, to have doubts about doing something.
a deteriorating safety situation - to deteriorate means to start falling apart; such a situation is one in which the safety situation is getting worse and worse.
resentment - French wine-makers are upset with (feel resentment against) the Chinese who are buying large areas of land in France.
fatal - causing death.
far-right extremists - very, very conservative extremists.
a resurgence - if something comes back strongly after you think it is gone or disappearing, it is showing a resurgence.
