Emmanuel Macron spent time as a child with his grandmother in the region and the visit with Xi Jinping is intended to be a reciprocal gesture.
France’s president hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
It is meant to be a reciprocal gesture after Mr Xi took Mr Macron to the residence of the governor of Guangdong province last year, where the Chinese president’s father once lived. Before lunch, protected from the elements by umbrellas, they watched a traditional folk dance performance on the terrace.The French and Chinese leaders watched folklore dancers at the Tourmalet pass, in the Pyrenees mountains
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