With a reception comparable to that of a rock star, French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China with crowds of people flocking to a university he visited in southern China shortly before the end of his three-day visit to the country, during which he exerted intense pressure on his counterpart Xi Jinping to help end the conflict in Ukraine.

Macron, who arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, said he was seeking to prevent China from supporting Russia’s invasion of the neighboring country.

This morning he flew to the southern city of Guangzhou, where hundreds of students were screaming and desperately asking for a selfie or a handshake with the French leader, all while the Daily Mail in France noted the extreme opposition of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who set themselves on fire. at one of the president’s favorite Parisian restaurants amid uproar over pension reforms.

Macron, whose name was chanted by some in the Guangzhou crowd, then spoke to students in the campus gymnasium and answered their questions before an early dinner with Xi and meetings with Chinese.

The French leader met his Chinese counterpart for talks in Beijing on Thursday but ultimately failed to encourage Xi to change his stance on ally Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.

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