(7 May 2024)
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Tourmalet Pass, Pyrenees, France – 7 May 2024
1. STILL of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan, right, French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte, left, posing in restaurant
2. STILL of Macron drinking coffee in a restaurant with Xi, Peng Liyuan, and Brigitte
3. STILL of Macron, Xi, Peng Liyuan, and Brigitte sharing a moment
4. STILL of Xi enjoying a drink with Macron
5. STILL of Xi watching Macron
6. STILL of Xi and Peng Liyuan enjoying a drink
7. STILL of Xi enjoying a drink
STORYLINE:
Chinese President Xi Jinping had lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron at a restaurant in the Pyrenees on Tuesday.
Macron hosted the Chinese leader at a remote pass in the mountains for private meetings, after a high-stakes state visit in Paris dominated by trade disputes and Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The wives of both leaders, Brigitte Macron and Peng Liyuan, were in attendance.
They enjoyed a performance of folklore dances and traditional music before the lunch.
Macron made a point of inviting Xi 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.
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