Analysis: Frances Emmanuel Macron heads to China on a complicated mission, keen to enlist Chinese leader Xi Jinping in the pursuit of checking Russia’s war while hoping to boost economic ties.
, giving the two leaders many hours of potential time together for frank discussion.
Macron last visited China in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world and hastened the emergence of. “The president is coming to say, more than three years after his last trip: ‘Let’s hear where you are, and listen to us on where we are,’” the French official said. “This can have an impact.”
Von der Leyen “dismissed in her speech the idea that Xi could be counted on to play a constructive role in the Ukraine conflict and pushed for a de-risking of Europe’s economic relationship with China,”of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. “Paris sees it differently. French officials close to Macron have indicated in recent weeks that he is considering offering Xi a deal along the lines of this: France will resist U.S.
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