French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday China and Europe should
work together on Beijing’s “Belt and Road” initiative, a project aiming
to build a modern-day “Silk Road” he said could not be “one-way”.
Macron began his first state visit to China with a stop in Xian, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road, hoping to relaunch EU-China relations often strained by Beijing’s restrictions on foreign investment and trade.
“After all, the ancient Silk Roads were never only Chinese,” Macron told an audience of academics, students and business people at the Daming Palace, the royal residence for the Tang dynasty for more than 220 years.
“By definition, these roads can only be shared. If they are roads, they cannot be one-way,” he said.
Read more: China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France's Macron says
Macron began his first state visit to China with a stop in Xian, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road, hoping to relaunch EU-China relations often strained by Beijing’s restrictions on foreign investment and trade.
“After all, the ancient Silk Roads were never only Chinese,” Macron told an audience of academics, students and business people at the Daming Palace, the royal residence for the Tang dynasty for more than 220 years.
“By definition, these roads can only be shared. If they are roads, they cannot be one-way,” he said.
Read more: China's new 'Silk Road' cannot be one-way, France's Macron says
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