Xi Jinping to visit France, Hungary and Serbia amid EU trade tariff row

China's president arrives as EU anti-subsidy investigations and tensions over espionage, Ukraine and Taiwan continue China's president, Xi Jinping, is to visit Europe next week for the first time in five years, in a tour that will take in the unlikely trifecta of France, Hungary and Serbia. The visit comes as China pushes to avoid a trade war with the EU, while attitudes towards Beijing in the bloc are hardening after multiple spying scandals and China's ongoing support for Russia in the war in ...