On the occasion of the second state visit to China by French President Emmanuel Macron, France and China jointly reaffirmed their full support for the Paris Climate Agreement on Wednesday 6 November in Beijing – which they consider to be “an irreversible process”.
This message was the response of both partners to the formal notification of the United States’ request for unilateral withdrawal from this global agreement concluded in 2015 (see EUROPE B12363A9). Without mentioning the...