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Xi and Macron get real in Beijing

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China and Europe are trying to find a more durable modus vivendi.
Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron held talks in Beijing on December 4.
The meeting came against the backdrop of increasingly tense Sino-European relations.

China is peeved that the EU is throwing up more barriers to Chi...