Correspondent in Asia
Operation seduction in Canton.
Xi Jinping will take Emmanuel Macron to dinner at a place chosen by him on Friday, the culmination of the French president's first visit to China since the pandemic.
The great southern port embodies the mercantile energy of a second world economy at the heart of globalization, an energy that the Chinese leader wants to project this week in the face of the
American
encirclement which threatens the rebirth of the Asian giant.
He will thus respond in his own way to the intimate evening offered by Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron to the Chinese presidential couple in a Mediterranean villa, on the heights of Beaulieu-sur-Mer, during his visit in 2019. Since then, the Covid, and the war in Ukraine have dissipated the scents of
dolce vita
, weighing down pan-European relations.
But the Chinese leader intends to continue his charm offensive towards the French president, launched in Bali in November, on the sidelines of the G20, fearing the alignment of the Old…
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