At elite Chinese university, Macron hails ‘critical thinking’

GUANGHZOU, China, April 7 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron was given a rock star welcome by Chinese students at an elite university in Guangzhou where he took questions and hailed critical thinking in a country with tight media and political control. On the final leg of a three-day visit to China, Macron travelled south to Guangzhou, a coastal port city which his office said symbolised China’s openness to the world. At the verdant campus of Sun Yat-sen university, excited students screamed Macron’s name, grabbed him to shake his hand and took pictures with their mobile phones as he made…