French President Emmanuel Macron will next week warn Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping that backing Russia militarily in its war on Ukraine would be disastrous, the French leader’s office said.

“If China took this disastrous decision, it would have a major strategic effect on the conflict,” an advisor to Macron, asking not to be named, told reporters ahead of the president’s visit to China next week.…

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