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1. Daily Heil, ew.
2. General Aviation (GA) is known to be more dangerous than scheduled carrier service or even other commercial service precisely because the standards and regulation hurdles are much lower. So, I would wait for NTSB report. Although I wouldn't be surprised that the probable cause will, rather than foul play, be some sort of pilot error.
The amount of money and free time required to obtain a private pilot licence/certificate and buying and maintaining a small plane tend to self-select a certain kind of people -- the sort of people who either owns a small company or be an executive of a large company, with all the accompying traits.

Now, I'm not saying all private pilots who are executives or owners of company are risk-takers and over-confident to the point of recklessness, it's just that a lot of fatal GA accidents have pilots that have that sort of traits (after all, there are also a lot of fatal GA accidents involving former athletes).
 
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Dude looks so much happier without his chaperon.
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Is it just me or does Macron look like the manager for an IT department?
 
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A landmark trade and investment pact sealed by the EU and China in recent years is effectively dead.

On Thursday, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, who is in Beijing to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping, gave her strongest signal yet that the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) deal is dead in the water as the pact had not even been discussed.

"The Comprehensive Agreement on Investment did not come up,” she told a press conference following her meeting with the Chinese president. “You know our position. We started negotiations round about 10 years ago and concluded the comprehensive agreement on investment two years ago. A lot has happened since then,” she said, including deterioration in market access for EU companies in the Chinese market.

Von der Leyen had made similar comments last week in a keynote speech on China in Brussels, saying the EU needs to “reassess” the pact.

“Our position is that we do have to reassess the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment,” she said Thursday.

The CAI was agreed between the EU and China in December 2020, with strong support from France and Germany, though it provoked criticism from the incoming Biden administration in Washington at the time. The agreement was put on hold in 2021 after China sanctioned several EU lawmakers.
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French top diplomat in rare meeting with Iran counterpart in Beijing​

Paris (AFP) – France's foreign minister has held a rare face-to-face meeting with her Iranian counterpart in China, urging Tehran to release French nationals "arbitrarily detained" in Iran, the foreign ministry said Friday.




Catherine Colonna, travelling with President Emmanuel Macron on his state visit to China, met Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Beijing.
Amir-Abdollohian was leading the Iranian delegation in separate reconciliation talks in Beijing between Iran and its once arch regional foe Saudi Arabia.
China mediated the reconciliation last month in a sign of Beijing's growing clout in the Middle East.
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Iran, France FMs meet in Beijing​

TEHRAN – The top diplomats of Iran and France who have simultaneously travelled to China held a meeting in Beijing in which they discussed various issues.

In the meeting, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his French counterpart Catherine Colonna exchanged views on bilateral relations, as well as regional and international issues of mutual interest, according to the Iranian foreign ministry.
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Beijing is the new Geneva.
 
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French President Emmanuel Macron cemented his status as a rock star on the world stage on Friday as he toured the campus of a top university in southern China accompanied by rapturous applause and screaming fans.

As soon as his official motorcade arrived on the grounds of Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, the huge crowds of waiting students broke into ecstatic cheers that crescendoed every time he waved to them.

There were swoons and screams of “I love you Macron” as the French president worked the reception line surrounded by burly Chinese and French secret service officers.

One senior member of Macron’s entourage remarked on the contrast with back home, since he wouldn’t even be able to set foot on the campus of a French university these days for fear of being lynched by angry protesters who oppose his pension reforms.

His star turn and spontaneous popularity also contrasted with China’s wooden communist leaders, none of whom have even half the charisma of Macron and who are generally only greeted with enthusiasm when it is in the job description of the crowd.

One other member of the delegation noted Macron’s aura of “La coolitude” — a slightly studied but still genuine coolness — was at its apogee in this setting.

After glad-handing and waving throughout the campus, Macron moved into the university gymnasium, where the atmosphere was more subdued. This probably had something to do with the three hours the model students had been made by their teachers to wait for the French president.

Macron said a few Cantonese words of greeting then proceeded to speak for nearly half an hour before taking questions — all asked in French — from three handpicked students whose questions had clearly been vetted to avoid even the tiniest hint of politics or controversy.

He was then whisked off to the grounds of a beautiful guesthouse on the fringe of Guangzhou city, where Chinese President Xi Jinping waited for him on a little bridge across a pond under the shade of perfectly manicured firs, pines and palm trees.

As they greeted each other, a pair of swans coasted serenely by.

Nearly three hours later, the two leaders were still locked in discussions, which apparently touched on everything from the Ukraine war to European unity.

Xi assured Macron that Ukraine was not China’s war and China was not supplying Russia with weapons. The two apparently also had a frank discussion on the self-ruled democratic island of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory and has repeatedly threatened to invade.

Xi’s message was that he doesn’t currently have any plans to attack. But accidents can happen.
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