Macron Urges Xi to Narrow ‘Unsustainable’ Trade Gap

The French president also sought to persuade the CCP to support a cease-fire in Ukraine.
Macron Urges Xi to Narrow ‘Unsustainable’ Trade Gap
French President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech during the 7th formal meeting of the China-France Business Council in Beijing on Dec. 4, 2025. Ludovic Marin/Pool/ AFP via Getty Images
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French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Beijing to rebalance the trade relationship after meetings with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping in Beijing.

“Europe and China have a role to play in laying, alongside other partners, the foundations for fair and robust global economic governance based on rules and not the law of the strongest,” Macron said at a joint press conference with Xi on Dec. 4.