Macron after the meeting with Xi: “China knows that it is not yet time for negotiations”

He french president Emmanuel Macronmakes sure China knows it There are still “war times” in Ukraine, “not up for negotiation”although it is necessary to consolidate common approaches with a view to future dialogue, after the state visit to Beijing this week.

In an interview published by the newspaper yesterday Echoesfocused on foreign policy issues, Macron asserted that “maybe” the war in Ukraine is not a “priority” of Chinese diplomacy, but that the “dialogue” with Beijing “allows us to soften the comments that have been made about some kind of smugness of China towards Russia”. “I think China notices the same as we do, that today is a military moment. Ukrainians are resisting, and we are helping them. This is not the time for negotiations, although we are preparing them and must lay the foundations. This is the goal of this dialogue with China, to consolidate common approaches,” said the French president.

Among these points, Macron cited “support for the principles of the UN Charter” and “a reminder” of nuclear responsibility, which he qualified as “it is up to China to draw the consequences from the fact that the president Putin will deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus days after pledging not to do so.