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...Context: Rutte is meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Qiang at a time of heightened tensions between Beijing and Europe — not least after the US pressured the Netherlands to restrict sales...
...Chart du jour: Weak man Germany’s gross domestic product shrank by 0.3 per cent last year amid high inflation, rising interest rates and elevated energy costs....
...Chart du jour: Risk on German foreign direct investment into China reached an all-time high of €11.5bn in 2022, with the total stock of German FDI in the country estimated to have reached a record €114bn...
...The Spanish leader is also due to meet Li Qiang, China’s new premier, and Zhao Leji, chair of the parliament....
...Exhibitions were used as case studies, with four main areas covered: contemporary art (Fondation Cartier, Paris’s Salle du Jeu de Paume and the Louvre were among those institutions visited); scenography...
...Another civilian air traffic control official, Du Qiang, was even more blunt. “Military aviation should not be granted priority over civilian flights,” he told the conference....
...Christie’s on May 6 sold its star item, Claude Monet’s “Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil”, for $41.4m....
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