In Beijing, French small business neighborhood welcomes Macron’s overtures

In Beijing, French small business neighborhood welcomes Macron’s overtures

BEIJING, April 6 (Reuters) – Amid the French business enterprise executives travelling to Beijing with President Emmanuel Macron, the temper was cautiously sanguine on the thawing post-pandemic trade potential clients with China, with some rejecting American-led calls for ‘decoupling’.

Macron travelled to China with a 50-powerful delegation of company leaders including the CEOs of Airbus (AIR.PA), Alstom (ALSO.PA) and EDF (EDF.PA), boosting eyebrows among some diplomats that this could blur the concept of firmness the West wants to mail at a time of heightened pressure among Beijing and the United States.

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