Macron’s marriage gets Weibo users talking

Power couple: Macron and Trogneux’s marriage has made waves in China. — Reuters

Beijing: China is closely following France’s presidential election, but web users appear less interested in the politics than the unusual marriage between moderate candidate Emmanuel Macron and his former teacher Brigitte Trogneux.

Comparisons with the characters of a popular Chinese television drama called In the Name of the People – which also happens to be the slogan of French far-right candidate Marine Le Pen – have flooded China’s Twitter-like Weibo.