Xi Jinping, China’s leader, landed in France yesterday on his first trip to Europe in five years. He will also visit Serbia and Hungary.
It is said that these three countries, to varying degrees, are embracing China’s pivot towards a new global order. China’s president seems intent on seizing geopolitical opportunities and geoeconomic competitive advantages to loosen Europe’s bonds with the U.S. and forge a world freed of its dominance.
The ChinaMed Project has an article by Léa Gebuhrer and Leonardo Bruni on France’s increasingly critical stance towards China which is accessible as “French Media on Sixty Years of Franco-Chinese Relations”