Not easy to change your mind.
Especially when even the unexpected brings you back to the hassle of everyday life.
Take Emmanuel Macron, for example.
Often, during his travels abroad, the President of the Republic takes a step to escape a little from the constraints that assail him.
Last Wednesday in China was a visit to the Red Brick Art Museum in Beijing.
Culture to breathe a little, with the inauguration of a festival.
“
A hyphen between our two countries
,” he boasted in his speech before visiting the exhibition.
He doesn't believe so well.
After the first two rooms, he enters a large hall where three main works await him.
First a large fishing net where surgical masks are piled up.
He observes her from afar.
Then a trap.
He spins around.
Finally a cage.
He goes inside.
“The artist worked on the theme of confinement,”
explains Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak mockingly.
The confinement.
Everything Emmanuel...
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