Liu Liu: Rare diplomatic arrangements!Macron and Feng Delin are about to visit

Source: Chang'an Street Knowledge

Author: Liu Liu

On April 3, the Chinese side announced the news of the two European leaders visited at the same time -French President Macron and Chairman of the European Commission Feng Delin will visit China from April 5th to 7th.

In the past few days, the outside world has paid close attention to their visit to China, and I look forward to this visit to inject new kinetic energy for Sino -French and China -Europe relations.

Sino -French relations have maintained a good momentum in recent years.This will be Macron's third visit to China. He once said "I hope to go to China every year."In recent months, he has expressed his willingness to visit China many times.

At the same time, this year is the 20th anniversary of establishing a comprehensive strategic partnership in China and the European Union.In January of this year, Feng Delin said that the EU attaches importance to China's status and role, and the development of European -China relations."I am looking forward to visiting China in a timely manner."

One is the head of the EU member states, and the other is the leader of the EU's major institutions. They started a trip to China at the same time. Some analysts believe that this has broken the practice of bilateral diplomacy to a certain extent.

Feng Zhongping, director of the European Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Chang'an Street that this kind of diplomatic arrangement is indeed rare, but in fact, Macron has previously revealed similar ideas, including hopes to work with German Chancellor, Shuoerz,Visit China, or invite leaders of the EU's major agencies to travel, hoping to use the status of the EU to expand France's influence.

Xin Hua, director of the EU Research Center of Shanghai Foreign Studies University and Deputy Secretary -General of the Shanghai European Society, pointed out that the arrangement of this "joint visit to China" highlights the importance of Sino -European economic and trade cooperation.

Xin Hua introduced that the EU, as an international organization, mainly function is to govern, manage and operate the European economy, especially the foreign economic and trade relations in Europe.The decision -making power of some trade policies and trade negotiations is actually in the hands of the EU instead of EU member states.In this way, it is easier to expand its economic relations with China and save communication costs.

Macron and Feng Delin's visit, which key issues are worthy of attention?

Feng Zhongping believes that Macron has two major tasks for visiting China. One is to strengthen cooperation with China in terms of economic and trade investment and energy transformation, and the other is to seek communication with China in the Ukrainian crisis.

On the 1st of the South China Morning Post quoted the Alith Palace sources revealed that Macron will lead a large number of enterprise executives to China, including both senior companies such as Airbus and Alston, as well as a large number of artists and filmmakers and filmmakersHope to consolidate and expand its economic and trade and cultural connections with China.

In terms of economic and trade cooperation between China and Europe, Xin Hua told Chang'an Street to know that if it can promote the "thawing" of the China -Europe Investment Agreement negotiations, it will be great to China and Europe.In addition, they also hope to use this to visit the investment of European capital in China, expand the market of European goods exports to China, and promote the continuous opening of the Chinese market to Europe.

For the China -Europe Investment Agreement to "thaw" in the short term or in the middle, Fu Cong, the head of the Chinese EU, said in an exclusive interview with the Foreign World Magazine that China sincerely hopes to overcome difficulties with the European party and release this as soon as possible to release this.Agreement has a huge potential for promoting China -Europe cooperation.At the same time, this agreement is mutually beneficial and win -win. It is not a gift for anyone. Promoting the agreement requires both parties to work together.

Although the Ukrainian crisis is different, the Chinese and European views are different, but striving for peace is the common goal of both parties.

Feng Zhongping pointed out that although there are some differences in the issue of China and Europe on the issue of Ukraine, Macron hopes to strengthen communication with China on this issue. Macron has previously talked about the Chinese position that China has released the political resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, which means that ChinaParticipating in peace is a "good thing."The Spanish Prime Minister Sanchez also said that China is a global participant, and the world must listen to China's voice to find a solution to the Russian -Ukraine conflict.

The outside world has paid attention. Since the beginning of the year, especially in the past few periods of time, multinational dignitaries, including European leaders, have visited China intensively, and China has ushered in a new round of diplomatic boom.

Qin Gang's State Councilor and Foreign Minister previously said at the Foreign Minister's press conference that Chinese diplomacy has pressed the "acceleration key" to sound the "assembly number".

Feng Zhongping believes that with the improvement of domestic crown disease epidemic, Chinese and foreign exchanges have recovered in an orderly manner, and Chinese diplomacy has pressed the "acceleration key".

Xin Hua pointed out that this round of diplomatic boom fully illustrates that the international community is increasingly attached to the relationship with China. In the context of the strong recovery of China's economy, countries urgently hope to establish a broader and connection with China in all aspects.

"As a big country, there is an irreplaceable position in the world system, it has very prominent importance, and it is impossible for any country to ignore any country in the international community.""Acceleration keys", China's international influence will be further enhanced. At the same time, the exchanges between China and countries, especially the economic and trade fields, will also promote the growth momentum of domestic economic and social development.