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editor-in-chief. This is FP Live. Welcome to the show. This week, Chinese

President Xi Jinping made his first visit to Europe in five years. The countries he chose to go to

are interesting, France, Serbia, and Hungary.

And they signal what his agenda was.

In France, he spent time with President Emmanuel Macron,

who has often argued for Europe's strategic autonomy,

a strange phrase coming from the leader of one of America's oldest allies.

And you can imagine Xi Jinping might have wanted to exploit

any differences between France and the United States. In Serbia, Xi's arrival coincided with the

25th anniversary of NATO's mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy there during the Kosovo War.

Again, the symbolism would have been clear. Beijing has often

equated that mistake with Western hypocrisy about rules and norms. And in Hungary, of course,

she got to spend time with Prime Minister Victor Orban, a leader who often dilutes the EU's

criticism of China. Now, all of this comes amid a relative calming of tensions between

the United States and China, as well as a spate of high-level diplomacy. Two top Biden

administration officials, Anthony Blinken and Janet Yellen, have made high-profile visits to Beijing

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