Macron welcomes Xi at Tarbes airport as Chinese president visits French Pyrenees

(7 May 2024)
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Tarbes - 7 May 2024
1. Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan disembarking plane, French President Emmanuel Macron shaking Xi's hands
2. Various of Xi and Peng being welcomed by Macron and his wife Brigitte
3. Various of welcoming ceremony, honor guard, Xi shaking hands with officials
4. Xi and Macron shaking hands, and then Xi leaving
STORYLINE:
France’s president is hosting China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees on Tuesday for private meetings after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

French President Emmanuel Macron made a point of inviting Chinese President Xi Jinping to the Tourmalet Pass near the Spanish border, where Macron spent time as a child visiting his grandmother.

It is meant to be a reciprocal gesture after Xi took Macron last year to the residence of the governor of Guangdong province, where the Chinese president’s father once lived.

The mountain meetings come after a grandiose state visit by Xi on Monday that included a ceremonial welcome at the monument housing Napoleon’s tomb and a state dinner at the Elysee Palace with celebrities and magnates.

Xi is on a trip to Europe aimed at reinvigorating relations at a time of global tensions. He heads next to Serbia and Hungary.

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