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The ultra firm handshake at last week's NATO summit was not an 'innocent' gesture. President Emmanuel Macron has told a French newspaper he wanted to show Donald Trump that France would not make little concessions, even symbolic ones. He believes an uncompromising handshake is the way to win respect. Is this what international diplomacy has come to? Alex Ritson reports.

(Photo: President Macron's bone-crushing handshake on Donald Trump. Credit: Reuters.)