It was always a balance. China believes in a mutual beneficial relationship and at the end of the day, still really prefer Europe to leave the US sphere of influence. If this visit really does happen, I think bejing will ignore the usual BS on human rights and this time the Russian war. They are just for propaganda purposes for Europeans back home.
Beijing will try to deal with each country individually to get some tangible deals, if European countries get more coupled with China, it will only hurt them more if and when shit finally goes down. And US forces their puppets to take the hit. France historically been more independent in this regard than other euro countries so maybe China can work something out with Macon. Germany is way too cucked right now, but their automobile industry is quite dependent on China market. Will Scholz even try something drastic now? I doubt so.
Of course we don't have confirmation yet if this meeting is actually happening
