{"id":54380,"date":"2023-04-16T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/16\/when-emmanuel-macron-met-xi-jinping-new-world-disorder"},"modified":"2023-04-16T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T08:00:05","slug":"when-macron-met-xi-welcome-to-the-new-world-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54380","title":{"rendered":"When Macron met Xi: welcome to the new world disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacy<\/p>\n<p>It is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is in the middle of another big international row. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/emmanuel-macron-france-china-xi-jinping-are-you-not-entertained-comments-spark-global-backlash-again\/\" title=\"\">France\u2019s president likes to stir things up<\/a>. It is his penchant, his trademark foible. Re-elected in 2022 despite a disappointing first term, he has four years left to make a difference. After that, political oblivion beckons \u2013 and Macron will still be under 50 in April 2027. Maybe this ticking clock helps explain why he courts danger like a bare-chested surfer riding the waves on the beach at Biarritz.<\/p>\n<p>At home, Macron has caused uproar in recent months by pushing through controversial pension reforms opposed by two-thirds of the population. The row has contributed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/france\/\" title=\"\">plunging personal approval rating<\/a>, down to 30% this month. Facing a confidence vote in March, his government survived by bypassing parliament. The reforms are under legal challenge, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/13\/macron-returns-to-more-protests-in-france-on-eve-of-pensions-ruling\" title=\"\">violent nationwide protests are continuing<\/a>. Yet insouciant Macron seems almost oblivious at times.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/16\/when-emmanuel-macron-met-xi-jinping-new-world-disorder\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacyIt is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is i&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1244,221,530,939,4,1158,52,2709,47,818,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-emmanuel-macron","category-europe","category-european-union","category-joe-biden","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","category-uk-news","category-ursula-von-der-leyen","category-us-news","category-vladimir-putin","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54381,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54380\/revisions\/54381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}