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The case sent shock waves through Britain’s parliament, as Cash was a parliamentary researcher and worked for the China Research Group, which lobbies lawmakers for a more hawkish approach to Beijing.

A German parliamentary inquiry last year said that a social, environmental and human-rights impact assessment would precede any export credit or investment guarantees for the project.

Macron faced immediate demands to dissolve the National Assembly and call parliamentary elections from opponents who say the lower house is too fractured to produce a stable government.

Instead, he is wielding the unspoken threat of dissolving parliament and calling snap parliamentary elections—yet again—to coerce lawmakers that he believes are largely reluctant to face voters.

Macron had been wielding the unspoken threat of dissolving the National Assembly and holding parliamentary elections after his latest prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu, abruptly resigned Monday amid bickering over his cabinet choices.