Did Macron "turn his back" after returning to France from his visit to China? It's not that simple. He wants to maintain friendship and make money as well. He needs to be friendly toward China while maintaining prestige at home. Many times, China's export model actually stems from the global resistance to Chinese capital exports. If Chinese capital cannot be exported globally, then China can only use its capital domestically to create capacity, and then export products to generate a trade surplus with the rest of the world.