Macron's mini-summit in Paris is a snub to Trump's trade policy | Larry Elliott
by Larry Elliott Economics editor from Economics | The Guardian on (#4BWAN)
European leaders and China's Xi Jinping put on a show of unity in the face of US tariffs
Donald Trump was not on the guest list for Emmanuel Macron's mini-summit in Paris, but the presence of the US president was still very much felt as Europe's leaders sat down to talk trade, business deals and geopolitics with China's Xi Jinping.
At one level, the message from the meeting of China's leader with Macron, the German chancellor Angela Merkel and the European commission president Jean-Claude Juncker was obvious: this was a show of unity in the face of Trump's tariffs aimed across both the Atlantic and the Pacific.
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