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Emmanuel Macron will travel to China on Wednesday April 5 for three days. The French president, who fears that Beijing will end up supplying arms to Russia, will discuss the subject of the war in Ukraine with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Commission will stand together facing Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, April 5. With a challenge: how to exist between on the one hand the showdown between Beijing and the United States, and on the other, the alliance between China and Russia against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine. China is both a rival and an obligated economic partner of the European Union. The Middle Kingdom will soon have 1.5 billion inhabitants, a colossal market for Europe but an unbalanced market.
Abyssal trade deficit
The 27 export a lot to Beijing, but in the last ten years China has doubled its exports to Europe. An abyssal trade deficit: one billion euros per day. Xi Jinping distorts the competition. “There are sectors in China that are not open to foreign companies“, sums up the analyst Alice Ekman. China is now also posing as an essential diplomatic giant. Beijing, for example, has just come to the Middle East to work for a spectacular reconciliation.
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