Never let it be said diplomacy amounts to more than horse-trading.
French President Emmanuel Macron went out of his way to win the heart of the Chinese leader on the first day of his state visit Monday, offering him a horse of the elite French Republican Guard.
Macron is on a three-day tour of China starting with a stop in Xi'an, an eastern departure point of the ancient Silk Road where he visited the terra-cotta army with his wife Brigitte and will talk of past and future Sino-French relations.