London | French President Emmanuel Macron will on Wednesday become the second European leader in less than a week to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, as Europe makes overtures to China despite a drumbeat of hawkish Brussels rhetoric.
Mr Macron, like Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez last week, is ostensibly focused on lobbying Mr Xi to play a more even-handed role in pursuing a peaceful settlement between Russia and Ukraine.
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