Trade Disputes and Diverging Views on Ukraine: French and Chinese Foreign Ministers Try To Smooth Differences in Preparation to XI Jinping’s May Visit to France
As French President Emmanuel Macron was making a PR trip to the Brazilian Amazon Forest in his rather desperate search for positive agenda photo-ops, his newly appointed foreign minister Stéphane Séjourné met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to prepare a planned May visit to France by leader Xi Jinping.
MSM will tell you that Séjourné ‘pressed China’ today (1) on trade issues and also the war in Ukraine.
The French FM is repeating the EU line taken by most EU European leaders – a stance that has precious little chance of changing China’s actions.
Associated Press reported:
“’The rebalancing of our economic partnership is a priority, as it is for our European partners’,
