{"id":42586,"date":"2024-05-06T13:14:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42586"},"modified":"2024-05-06T13:14:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T13:14:46","slug":"chinas-president-xi-pays-state-visit-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/05\/06\/chinas-president-xi-pays-state-visit-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s President Xi pays state visit to France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China\u2019s President Xi Jinping arrived at the French presidential palace on Monday for a\u00a0two-day state visit<\/strong>\u00a0that is expected to focus both on trade disputes and diplomatic efforts to convince Beijing to use its influence to move Russia toward ending the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Paris, Xi first joined a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meant to address broader EU concerns. Macron said in his introductory remarks the meeting would first address trade issues and how to ensure \u201cfair competition,\u201d then the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are at a turning point in our history\u201d as the Europe-China relationship is faced with challenges, Macron said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The talks are aimed at sharing \u201cboth our shared positions and our concerns, to try to overcome them, because the future of our continent will very clearly also depend on our ability to develop balanced relations with China,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Macron, a strong advocate of Europe\u2019s economic sovereignty, wants to raise French concerns about a Chinese antidumping investigation into cognac and other European brandy, and tensions over French cosmetics and other sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent speech, he denounced trade practices of both China<\/strong> and the United States as shoring up protections and subsidies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the start of the meeting in Paris, Xi said \u201cthe world today has entered a new period of turbulence and change.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs two important forces in the world, China and Europe should … continuously make new contributions to world peace and development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EU launched an investigation<\/strong> last fall into Chinese subsidies and could impose tariffs on electric vehicles exported from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe European Union and China want good relations,\u201d von der Leyen said. \u201cWe have a substantial EU-China economic relationship. … But this relationship is also challenged, for example, through state-induced overcapacity, unequal market access and overdependencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paris is the first stop on Xi\u2019s European trip, seeking to rebuild relations at a time of global tensions. After France on Monday and Tuesday, he will head to Serbia and Hungary<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France hopes the discussions will help convince China to use its leverage with Moscow to \u2018\u2019contribute to a resolution of the conflict\u201d in Ukraine, according to a French presidential official. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced plans to visit China this month<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron will press Xi over supplies from Chinese companies supporting the Russian war effort despite EU sanctions, he said. China claims neutrality in the Ukraine conflict. France also wants China to maintain a dialogue with Kyiv, added the official, who was not authorized to be identified according to presidential policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Macron appealed to Xi to \u201cbring Russia to its senses,\u201d but the call was not followed by any apparent action by Beijing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFrench authorities are pursuing two objectives that are ultimately contradictory,\u201d said Marc Julienne, director of the Center for Asian Studies at the French Institute of International Relations. \u201cOn the one hand, to convince Xi that it\u2019s in his interest to help Europeans to put pressure on Vladimir Putin to end the war and, on the other hand, to dissuade the Chinese president from delivering arms to his Russian friend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn short, we think that Xi can help us, but at the same time we fear that he could help Putin,\u201d Julienne wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As France prepares to host the Summer Olympics<\/strong>, Macron said he would ask Xi to use his influence<\/strong> to make the Games \u201ca diplomatic moment of peace.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discussions will also be closely watched from Washington, a month before President Joe Biden is expected to pay his own state visit to France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xi\u2019s visit marks the 60th anniversary of France-China diplomatic relations, and follows Macron\u2019s trip to China in April 2023<\/strong>. Macron prompted controversy on that trip after he said France wouldn\u2019t blindly follow the U.S.<\/strong> in getting involved in crises that are not its concern, apparently referring to China\u2019s demands for unification with Taiwan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several groups \u2014 including International Campaign for Tibet and France\u2019s Human Rights League \u2014 urged Macron to put human rights issues at the heart of his talks with Xi. Protesters demonstrated in Paris as Xi arrived on Sunday, calling for a free Tibet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amnesty International called on Macron to demand the release of Uyghur economics professor Ilham Tohti, who was jailed in China for life in 2014 on charges of promoting separatism, and other imprisoned activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Monday morning, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders staged a protest in front of the Arc de Triomphe monument to denounce Xi\u2019s visit, calling the Chinese president \u201cone of the greatest predators of press freedom.\u201d The group says 119 journalists are imprisoned in the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron said in an interview published Sunday that he will raise human rights concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later on Monday, a formal ceremony is to take place at the Invalides monument before bilateral talks at the Elysee presidential palace. Macron and Xi will conclude a nearby French-Chinese economic forum and then join their wives for a state dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second day of the visit is meant to be a more personal moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Macron has invited Xi to visit the Tourmalet Pass in the Pyrenees mountains on Tuesday, where the French leader spent time as a child to see his grandmother. The trip is meant to be a reciprocal gesture after Xi took Macron last year to the residence of the governor of Guangdong province, where his father once lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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