Macron, Scholz Likely To Discover Some Strange Birds Indeed as They Travel to the East

Both European leaders are heading to China before the G-20 Summit in November.

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Virginian Partridge (Northern Bobwhite) under attack by a young red-shouldered hawk. Plate 76 from 'Birds of America' by John James Audubon (Havell Edition). RestoredPrints.com via Wikimedia Commons

“Oh, the places you’ll go,” Dr. Seuss wrote. “You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go.” The adage today appears as befitting of some heads of state as it does birds of youth. 

Indeed, its most recent bearing, it would seem, is on President Macron of France and Chancellor Scholz of Germany, who, in November, plan to travel to Communist China to visit Xi Jinping. The two European leaders plan to make separate trips some one week apart.

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