President Xi Jinping attends a China-France-EU trilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at Elysee Palace, in Paris, France, May 6, 2024. Photo: Xinhua

The global economy is a very different place today than it was five years ago, when Chinese leader Xi Jinping last visited Europe. Since 2019, a pandemic wreaked havoc, Joe Biden was sworn in as US president, Russia invaded Ukraine (which Beijing tacitly backed), German Chancellor Angela Merkel stepped aside, the US Federal Reserve carried […]

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