French President Emmanuel Macron has expressed his "deep concern" to Chinese leader Xi Jinping about military cooperation between Russia and North Korea during a phone conversation, while also calling on Beijing to make a "significant contribution" to humanitarian aid provided by the United Nations to Palestinian civilians.
Macron and Xi spoke by phone on Monday, and according to a French presidential official, "[France] would like for China to realise to what extent this is a problematic development for France and the entire European Union.