Emmanuel Macron paid a state visit to China. The goal is serious

Yesterday, April 5, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China on a state visit. RIA Novosti reports on this. The plane of the French leader landed at the airport in the Chinese capital in the afternoon, Beijing time. Macron's state visit to China will last three days. According to information, Emmanuel Macron will start his trip from a city of personal significance for the Chinese leader. He is also said to visit Beijing and the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. On this trip, Emmanuel Macron brought with him the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. He will take part in the tripartite meeting between the leaders of France and China. Before his trip to China, Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to dissuade Chinese President Xi Jinping from getting closer to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He is expected to hold closed-door talks with French President Xi Jinping for several hours. The French leader wants to involve the Chinese government in a mediation mission to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. However, the representatives of the European countries and the USA doubt that the politician's visit will be successful. Earlier, the official Paris stated that it is time to restore relations with the Chinese authorities and that the two sides want to start dialogue on global issues at a new pace. According to the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Macron will hold separate meetings with Chinese Prime Minister Li Xiang and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Zhao Lezhi. For information, Macron and Xi Jinping last met in November 2022 as part of the G20 summit in Indonesia. The last visit of the French president to China took place in 2019.