PARIS (AP) — How do you clean over commerce tensions with the omnipotent chief of financial powerhouse China? Attraction him with a bottle of Cognac, or two.
That appeared to be French President Emmanuel Macron’s technique together with his fastidiously chosen reward record for visiting Chinese language President Xi Jinping on Monday.
China just lately opened an anti-dumping investigation into European brandy — which primarily means French Cognac. It’s seen as retaliation for EU investigations into Chinese language subsidies for electrical automobiles and medical gadgets.
These disputes had been central to talks between Xi and Macron on Monday. Macron mentioned afterward that he thanked Xi for his “openness in regards to the provisional measures towards French Cognac.”
In keeping with the protocol of formal state visits, the 2 leaders then exchanged presents.
Xi offered the French president with a hanging stuffed chicken, French-language books printed in China, and a portray. Macron provided uncommon volumes by Victor Hugo, the primary French-Chinese language dictionary, a sculpted glass vase from Amboise — and two bottles of Cognac, a Hennessy X.O. and a prized Louis XIII by Remy Martin.