French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Beijing in a bid to improve economic cooperation with the Chinese communist regime—and to ask for China’s help in de-escalating the Russia-Ukraine war.
Observers have pointed out that Macron’s pursuit of cooperation with the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is somewhat idealistic. Macron has consistently attempted to take the “third way”—which tends to differ from the path of the United States. In the context of the increasingly acrimonious US-China relationship, however, the feasibility of this practice is continuing to decline.
The press release issued by the Xinhua News Agency—the CCP’s official mouthpiece—on the meeting between Macron and CCP leader Xi Jinping was comparatively short, at a little over 300 words. It quoted Xi as saying that “the international situation is complicated,” that China and France enjoy “high-quality strategic communication,” and that the two countries are both promoters of “the democratization of international relations.”…