Personally I wish the black boxes had been sent to the UK after Germany declined since France as we all know is the home of Boeing's competitor Airbus. Perhaps Switzerland, Scandanavia, Holland etc. would have been a better choice, but I'm not confident that they have the expertise to get data from damaged black boxes where you seem to have only one opportunity to do it. Similarly, I'm not sure about Japan/South Korea/Singapore, but Australia seems able to do this stuff, and if so, that would have been a better choice than France in terms of the optics.