France gifted Cognac to China's President Xi Jinping during talks on trade disputes.

France offered a gesture of "Cognac diplomacy" to China's President Xi Jinping, gifting him with bottles of French Cognac during talks on trade disputes over electric cars, cosmetics, and EU investigations into Chinese subsidies for medical devices. Macron thanked Xi for his "openness about the provisional measures toward French Cognac," and both leaders exchanged gifts.