President Xi has been trying much of the last year to sort of drive a wedge between Europe and America. But as China emerges from kind of COVID-induced isolation, European governments are very keen to re-engage with China economically. Mr Macron, like many European leaders, is under pressure from his own business community to try to create more opportunities in the Chinese market.
On his visit to Beijing Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, has much to balance: his peacemaking ways, a more hawkish travel partner and the commercial interests of his delegation of business leaders. What will result? We ask what is being done to avoid a looming famine in North Korea. And why baseball is getting speedier and more action-packed this season.
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