Correspondent in Asia
Ursula von der Leyen arrives in Beijing at the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, taking on the bad role in the eyes of her Chinese hosts.
The President of the European Commission lands this Thursday with
"bad intentions"
lambasted the
National Defense Times
, a newspaper affiliated with the communist regime, which urges the French president to follow in the footsteps of General de Gaulle, to free Europe from the Atlanticist tutelage, on the occasion of his first visit to China since the pandemic.
“Von der Leyen is not well liked in China.
One has the impression that his invitation was suggested by the Americans,”
adds a Chinese entrepreneur about the German leader, who called on the EU to toughen its strategy against China during a tough speech in Brussels last week.
Emmanuel Macron, he was quick to give pledges to his hosts as soon as he landed in Beijing on Wednesday, calling to refuse
"a logic of block to block"
, swearing that China can
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