bring russia to its senses . that s the message the french president emmanuel macron has delivered on thursday to the man who can, maybe, influence vladimir putin, the chinese leader xi jinping. applying pressure on ukraine isn t an an easy sell after years of worsening relations between the west and china, and president xi s recent visit to moscow. here s some of what president macron had to say. decades of peace in europe. i know i can count on you to bring russia to its senses and everyone to the negotiating table. but we need to find a lasting peace. that is to say, a peace that respects internationally recognised borders and avoids any form of escalation. what i meant to say was applying russia, not on ukraine. the president of the european commission is also in bejing with emmanuel macron in what s being framed by some as a good cop bad cop scenario. with ursula von der leyen taking the tough stance. we also count on china not to provide any military equipment dir
number one, it s difficult dealing with the chinese because the government, it sjust so with the chinese because the government, it s just so opaque. there is no transparency whatsoever. it is very difficult to get straight answers from the chinese government. theyjust hide behind it. so, that was in itself a procedural matter, quite frustrating. more specifically, the south china sea, when china started to dump sand on those submerged atolls and started building up islands and put military bases on them and we american said no, you can do that, that s against national law. the philippines took them to the hay. but china theyjust basically said, might makes right, we are going to do it, and you can t do anything about it, and so they did. that was very frustrating. that was the former did. that was very frustrating. that was the former us did. that was very frustrating. that was the former us ambassador to china talking to me a little bit earlier about president microns trip to chi
people to relocate and threatening to create a generation of climate refugees. what s happening here is a bellwether of the planet s future as the world met for the cop 26 in glasgow. i traveled to the pacific islands to meet women on the front lines who are leading the fight against the climate crisis from elders relocating their villages. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. from the first female leader in the pacific islands. building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don t have. to the only current serving female prime minister. there s very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation.
the government is working on the adaptation plan and looking at building up islands is a possibility. i mean, it s going to take a lot of money that we don t have, but that might be the only options we have at this at this point. are you in the marshall islands having conversations about migration, about climate refugees, about actually moving people right now? as 2a islands with communities, and so if we were to build up islands, which island can we build up? because we cannot afford to build up all the islands. and if we were to relocate people, where do we know which islands you relocate people to? especially we have a culture where certain lands belong to certain families. so these are really hard questions. i personally would like to see my granddaughter continue to live in the marshall islands
from elders relocating their villages. .. they told us to go, go. you just worry about your life. ..to a younger generation leading with practical approaches. so mangroves are the real eco heroes and the eco gems. from the first female leader in the pacific islands. building up islands is a possibility that is going to take a lot of money that we don t have. ..to the only current serving female prime minister. there s very low emissions from the pacific and yet. we are most impacted. who carries the expectations of a generation of young women looking for representation. fiame naomi mata afa became samoa s first female prime minister in 2021, the pacific islands region has the lowest female representation in politics in the world. this year, she ll be attending the cop 26 remotely. climate change is an existential threat to countries like samoa.