Europe live: China’s Xi Jinping greeted by Emmanuel Macron at Élysée Palace in Paris
On his first visit to the EU in five years, China’s president met his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen. Von der Leyen told Xi that both Europe and China have an interest “in the effective functioning of the rules-based international order” but also raised challenges linked to “state-induced overcapacity,