US EditionMacron urges Xi to step up efforts on Ukraine, rebalancing global trade
Macron pressed Xi to back a Ukraine ceasefire and address the EU's $357 billion trade deficit with China, while discussing investment and cultural cooperation.
- On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss economic ties, trade tensions, Taiwan and Ukraine during a three-day state visit starting Dec 3, with formal talks on Dec 4 before heading to Chengdu.
- Paris is pressing Beijing to address trade frictions over rare earths and tariffs as Emmanuel Macron, French President, aims to tackle Chinese over-production and urges Xi to influence Vladimir Putin, Russian President, on Ukraine.
- On the economic front, Macron's visit includes possible contracts by French energy and transport companies and meetings with Li Qiang and Zhao Leji amid a $55 billion trade deficit, the French treasury said.
- China's request for French backing highlights its dispute with Japan over Taiwan, while tensions rose after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments last month, critics called `provocative remarks`.
- Macron's personal courtship of Xi Jinping, including a previous Pyrenees visit, suggests close ties despite many unresolved political issues in recent years.
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China and France, on Ukraine, support efforts on ceasefire and restoration of peace based on international law, truths and principles of the Charter of the UN. In the Joint Declaration on the situation...
China and France deepen cooperation amid Ukraine and trade tensions
French President Emmanuel Macron met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Thursday, seeking to draw China into efforts to pressure Russia toward a ceasefire in Ukraine while shoring up strained trade ties. The visit comes as France prepares to assume the G7 presidency next year and as Beijing signals it wants more economic engagement with Europe.
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Xi Jinping remained inflexible about China's support for Russia in its war effort in Ukraine. Emmanuel Macron hopes to have a little more success on the issue of trade imbalances that poison relations with China.
Macron Urges Xi to Narrow ‘Unsustainable’ Trade Gap
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Beijing to rebalance the trade relationship after meetings with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping in Beijing. “Europe and China have a role to play in laying, alongside other partners, the foundations for fair and robust global economic governance based on rules and not the law of the strongest,” Macron said at a joint news conference with Xi on Dec. 4. Macron said the European Union s…
Macron pushes EU case on trade and Ukraine in China visit
French president Emmanuel Macron urged Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to agree to resolve its trade disputes with Europe and give its support to the bloc’s stance on the war in Ukraine during a state visit to Beijing on Thursday.
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