These will not be peaceful meetings: it is more than likely that Macron will confront Xi Jinping over trade disputes between Brussels and Beijing amid a European investigation into Chinese electric car exports. Notable will be the absence of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz from Jinping’s reception, which also reflects the differences in the positions of the 27 countries towards China.
Understanding converges on the war in Ukraine. Xi Jinping will face pressure from Beijing to pressure Moscow to consider a truce, but no concrete action is expected from China, especially as signs are moving in the opposite direction – the Chinese president has decided to visit two countries in Europe, Serbia and Hungary , friends of Vladimir Putin.
DETAILSAnti-Tibetan protest
Pro-Tibetan protesters protested against Jinping’s visit to Paris. The “land of human rights” welcomes the “dictator,” they charged.
Visit the Pyrenees
Emmanuel Macron will take Xi to the Pyrenees, the mountain range where the Gallic leader’s grandmother was born and which separates France from the Iberian Peninsula.
strengthen ties
Economic ties between Europe and China amount to 2.3 billion euros a day, and Xi Jinping wants to deepen the relationship.