FILE- French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, April 6, 2023. Xi will start his Europe tour in Paris on May 6-7, 2024, meeting with Macron, who has been stressing the idea of European strategic autonomy from the U.S. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)
FILE- France's President Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech at the Sun Yat-sen university in Guangzhou, China, Friday, April 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
A statue of ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius stands in front of the Chinese Cultural Center in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, April 29, 2024. Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
FILE- French President Emmanuel Macron walks with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony held outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, April 6, 2023. Xi will start his Europe tour in Paris on May 6-7, 2024, meeting with Macron, who has been stressing the idea of European strategic autonomy from the U.S. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)
FILE- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a welcome ceremony with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, left, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. Hungary is the first EU member to participate in Xi's signature Belt and Road Initiative that seeks to build billions of dollars of roads, ports, power plants and other infrastructure across Asia, Africa and beyond. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
FILE - A motorcyclist rides past a billboard showing Serbian and Chinese flags that read: "Serbs and Chinese brothers forever" placed on a street prior to a curfew set up to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, April 13, 2020. Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
FILE - A worker rests between billboards that read: ''Construction of the Serbian-Hungarian railway'' in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. In 2014, Hungary and Serbia concluded an agreement with Beijing to modernize the railway between their capitals of Budapest and Belgrade, part of a Belt and Road plan to link up with the Chinese-controlled port of Piraeus in Greece, to the south, an entry point for Chinese goods to Central and Eastern Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)
FILE- Construction is underway for a battery factory for electric vehicles built by China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) in Debrecen, Hungary on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Hungary's government has deepened its economic ties with China, with the proliferation of Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery factories across the country gaining the most attention. Near Debrecen, construction is underway of a nearly 550-acre, 7.3 billion euro ($7.9 billion) EV battery plant, Hungary's largest-ever foreign direct investment. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)
FILE- From left in front row, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, back centre, with other leaders wave during a group photo session at the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. (Suo Takekuma/Pool Photo via AP, File)
A Chinese flag is placed near flowers on a monument at the site of a former Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, April 29, 2024. During NATO bombing campaign, in 1999, jets bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, killing three people and 20 injured. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Chinese and Serbian flags fly on lampposts, days before the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Xi will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
A man with a dog walks by a construction site in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary next week as Beijing appears to seek a larger role in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine that has upended global political and economic security. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
FILE- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping pose for photographers as they meet at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The two countries have a long history of friendship, particularly since 1999, when NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese nationals, during the air war to end Serbia's brutal crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo. (Damir Sagolj/Pool Photo via AP)