France wants to have an impact on China’s position over Russia and the war in Ukraine • FRANCE 24

France wants to have an impact on China’s position over Russia and the war in Ukraine • FRANCE 24

at the Elis say James talk us through the personal relationship the importance of that and the two men off to the the panes tomorrow and perhaps maybe personal politics could make a difference yes well this is clear we what’s being hoped for here at the L Palace and that’s what we were told before this meeting is that this sequence in the pyes is very much for both men to have time together uh without all the protocol around them without all their Entourage where they can really just talk as men one to another and what’s at stake here and what’s you know the message that Emanuel macron has expected to convey is the fact that yes Ukraine is a key issue for the Europeans and for the French that it is of National Security importance that it is something that the French and Europeans will not be giving up on and what he’s trying to achieve indeed is for tiin Ping to take a very firm engagement as to not sending weapons to uh Russia but also not letting its companies China export goods that can be used on the battlefield so we’re talking what we’re talking drones we’re talking detection systems we’re also talking about uh some heavy production tools such as uh Machine Tools to produce Armament that right now are being indeed according to uh the aliz and to the European Union shipped to Russia trade between Russia and the uh and and China has leaped 25% last year so that goes to show how much exchanges there are between both countries and yes indeed uh tiin pin can speak and have some influence on uh the Vladimir Putin the Russian president the question is will he want to uh speak to him that obviously is not very obvious now we have spoken to people here at the El palis who tell us look the idea is to put the idea in his head to show that the European Union and France are determined when it comes to Ukraine and they hope that that will have some impact at an important stage maybe later down later down the line but in 2 I mean last time both men met tpin and Emanuel macron well tiin ping did speak on the phone uh to vadir zelinski the Ukrainian president who got a chance uh to air his concerns as to the situation and ask for Chinese help we’ll see if there is for example a new contact between those two leaders in days to come James Andre thank you

French President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pressed Xi Jinping at a summit in Paris on Monday to use Beijing’s influence to halt the Russian war against Ukraine, also telling the Chinese leader to accept fair global trade rules.
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