DIRECT. Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron in Occitanie: follow the Chinese president's state visit to the region

Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron alongside Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan this Monday May 6 at the Elysée. XinHua – Yin Bogu

This Tuesday, May 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife are in Occitania with Emmanuel and Brigitte Macron. After an official day this Monday, May 6 in Paris, the trip to the Col du Tourmalet in the Hautes-Pyrénées takes a more relaxed turn. Follow the event live.

After a dinner at the Elysée, to end a day of exchange around geopolitical or commercial issues, the French and Chinese presidents as well as their wives are going this Tuesday, May 7, to the Hautes -Pyrenees, at the Col du Tourmalet, a place dear to Emmanuel Macron, for a more informal day.

What to remember

China did not condemn the war in Ukraine, but on Monday supported the idea of ​​a global Olympic truce during the Paris Games. Ursula Von der Leyen, invited to an exchange on trade policy, denounced the difficulty of finding a trade balance between China and Europe. The EU, she insisted, "cannot absorb the massive overproduction of Chinese manufactured products which are flooding its market". This Tuesday, the Chinese and French presidential couples are expected for a lunch in the Hautes-Pyrénées. 09h33.

The program

The Chinese president and his wife are < strong>expected at 11:40 a.m. at Tarbes-Lourdes airport . They should then arrive at 1 p.m. at the Col du Tourmalet, where they will have lunch with the Macron couple. They will leave from the same airport at 5 p.m.