Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Monaco on the French Riviera Sunday seeking to press ambitious commercial goals ahead of talks with France's Emmanuel Macron who is trying to forge a united European front to contend with Beijing's advances.
France said on Friday it would send its aircraft carrier to the Indian Ocean next year, to defend freedom of navigation at a time of growing Chinese assertiveness in disputed waters.
The international police organisation Interpol announced on Sunday that it has received the resignation of its Chinese chief Meng Hongwei, who has been missing since September 25 and is suspected by Beijing of "violating the law".
China signed a deal Monday to lift a ban on French beef and said discussions to buy Airbus planes remained open as French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe ended a four-day visit.
Two former French intelligence agents have been charged with passing intelligence to a "foreign power", the government said Thursday, with French media reporting the country as China.
Europe could end up rueing a potential new deal between China and the United States after the two sides stepped back from a trade war, France's Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Sunday.
China on Friday hit back at French President Emmanuel Macron's warnings against allowing a single nation to dominate the Indo-Pacific region, where many countries fear Beijing's growing might.
Chinese tourists are big spenders and with the numbers visiting Europe set to soar by nearly 70 percent over the next five years, the countries of the Old Continent are rolling out the red carpet to make the guests feel welcome.
In a response to panda power, French President Emmanuel Macron is betting on equine diplomacy during his first state visit to China -- presenting his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with a horse as a gift.
A French citizen and her husband have been incommunicado for a week after the couple travelled to southern China to paint a tribute to the late democracy activist and dissident Liu Xiaobo, friends and
witnesses said Friday.
A French baker has been arrested and jailed in China after being accused of using out-of-date flour by health inspectors and police, his family said on Wednesday as they publicized a campaign to free him.
About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday against the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said.
China Tuesday urged France to protect the safety and rights of its citizens after police in Paris killed a Chinese national, sparking a violent protest.
A Chinese shop owner was attacked and forced to hand over €5,000 ($5,600) in a Paris suburb in the latest attack on the Chinese community in the French capital, police said Wednesday.
Around 1,800 people from the Chinese community in France took part in a march near Paris Sunday calling for greater security after a deadly robbery earlier this month.
The finishing touches were being put Friday to a breathtaking installation about power by Chinese artist Huang Yong Ping which has a 133-ton snake threatening a triumphal arch made from shipping containers topped with a giant Napoleon hat.
A French reporter forced to leave Beijing after she criticised government policy in violence-racked Xinjiang arrived home Friday after warning of dark days ahead for journalists working in China.
China has refused to renew the press credentials of a French journalist, effectively expelling her, unless she recants one of her stories, the reporter told AFP news agency on Friday, the first such case since 2012.
A Chinese tourist guide was robbed of €25,000 ($28,300) in cash and his new Rolex watch after he had prevented two of his group from being robbed themselves outside a hotel near Paris, police said on Sunday.
China's faltering growth poses a threat to a recovery in the global economy, France's economy minister Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday, calling for urgent action to bolster the eurozone.
China's triple yuan devaluation could hit France's lucrative luxury sector, which has already been impacted by Beijing's tough anti-corruption drive against spendthrift officials, analysts say.
