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The mission in Punaauia had been given the legally required six-month notice last July to move out of the Residence Tania which Beijing had rented since 2007.
This came after an increasing number of disputes over rent and maintenance of the house.
While the owner Huguette Ly and her daughter Eva Bitton were trying to regain possession of their house, China, through its new consul, offered to buy it but they insist that it is not for sale.
Eva Bitton said she met the Chinese diplomats at their request.
"So I went there, with lawyers, and just sat down. I didn't sign anything. And now they are telling the French state, they are telling the Haut-Commissaire Rene Bidal, the most important state representative, that I signed the paper when I sat down at the meeting. This is very unfair."
She also says the house is a residential home, but it is no longer used as such.
"They have a big satellite dish on the roof. We told them it's not made for that. My mum said they wanted her to pay millions for electricity and she said her house was not made for that."
She says in addition to ignoring French contract law, the Chinese diplomats were refusing her and her mother access to the house.
Because the Chinese diplomats failed to leave, a bailiff was sent to Residence Tania on 22 March to ascertain for the record that the Chinese mission still occupied it.
The bailiff reported that a consulate employee wanted to have a meeting with the French High Commissioner to "try to find a solution to this situation."
Mrs Bitton says after the rental contract had lapsed China sent money to the account but she said their bank returned it because the rental contract expired at the end of February.
Why the Chinese government is determined to defy local laws and keep the house is unclear to her.
"Maybe there is gold under the house, I don't know. They have money, they have other houses. They have another big house just 100 metres from my house."
In the absence of any government support in her struggle with China she has turned to social media.
She says local media have largely ignored her plight, suggesting they are subject to pressure.
The French Polynesian government says it was a private dispute between a landlord and a tenant and it cannot intervene in the affairs strictly in the competence of China.
Mrs Bitton said however that she had been asked to meet the local government last year and was advised to let the Chinese diplomats have their way.
RNZ Pacific asked the Chinese consulate for comment.
