French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains as he put pressure on Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade arrangements.
Early Tuesday afternoon Xi, his wife Peng Peiyun, and the Chinese delegation arrived in their extended Boeing 747 in a rainy Tarbes in the French Pyrenées, and then headed to the village of Bagnere-de-Bigorre to have lunch with Macron and his wife Brigitte.