AFP-JIJI –
French President Emmanuel Macron would warn Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday against supporting Russia in the conflict over Ukraine, but also try to enlist his help in finding an end to the war.
Xi is making a state visit to France to mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between France and China. The trip is his first to Europe since 2019 and he will also visit Serbia and Hungary later in the week.
But Xi’s choice of France as the only major European power on his itinerary indicates the importance the leader of the communist one-party state of more than 1.4 billion people places on Macron as an EU power broker for two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
