The high-level talks “underscore the growing tension between the United States and Europe over how to engage with China,” the publication said.
In particular, it is explained that the French leader is trying to persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping “to play an important role in achieving peace between Ukraine and the Russian Federation”.
In turn, US officials say China “seeks to reshape the world in accordance with its authoritarian model, while European leaders are less unanimous on the balance of risks and benefits of close ties with Beijing.”
It is noted that it is precisely in this that the journalists of the publication see “differences between the United States and Europe on the question of how to interact with China”.
Earlier, it was reported that France was rather skeptical of the results of Emmanuel Macron’s three-day state visit to China. Thus, the left-liberal newspaper Liberation considers them “at best fuzzy and vague, if not disappointing”.
