French President Emmanuel Macron began a state visit to the Netherlands seeking to calm a furore over his controversial remarks on Europe and China.
Emmanuel Macron is the first French president to make a state visit to the Netherlands for 23 years.AMSTERDAM - French President Emmanuel Macron began a state visit to the Netherlands on Tuesday seeking to calm a furore over his controversial remarks on Europe and China.
Making the first state visit by a French president to the Netherlands for 23 years, Macron and his wife Brigitte were greeted by Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima on their arrival in Amsterdam. But amid the pomp and ceremony, all eyes are on Macron's comments on China, which he visited last week.
He will use the address to present"a doctrine of economic security" against China and the United States, amid European unease over US climate subsidies.
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