France’s Macron, Having Realized Europe Is Mortal, Turns to a Rendezvous With Communist China’s Xi Jinping

They mount an expedition to the pic du midi in the Pyrenees — could the famously rarified air clarify the mind of the party boss?

AP/Ng Han Guan, pool
Presidents Macron, second from right, and Xi, left, outside the Great Hall of the People at Beijing, April 6, 2023. AP/Ng Han Guan, pool

President Macron of France, having realized that Europe is “mortal,” has assumed the task of resuscitating it. Yet a number of his proposals and tactics, including his hosting of Xi Jinping in Paris next week — Mr. X’s first European visit in five years — might rather hasten Europe’s undue demise. Some also raise doubts over France’s reliability as an American ally, particularly in matters concerning Communist China.

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