Monday, April 10, 2023

French President Macron Says Europe Must Resist Pressure To Become ‘America’s Followers’

French President Emmanuel Macron and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, arrive at a joint news conference in Beijing on Thursday. | AFP-JIJI  

Politico: Europe must resist pressure to become ‘America’s followers,’ says Macron 

 The ‘great risk’ Europe faces is getting ‘caught up in crises that are not ours,’ French president says in interview. 

ABOARD COTAM UNITÉ (FRANCE’S AIR FORCE ONE) — Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between China and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane back from a three-day state visit to China. 

Speaking with POLITICO and two French journalists after spending around six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his trip, Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.” 

He said “the great risk” Europe faces is that it “gets caught up in crises that are not ours, which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy,” while flying from Beijing to Guangzhou, in southern China, aboard COTAM Unité, France’s Air Force One.  

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WNU Editor: French President Macron's trip to Beijing must have been an eye--opener for him to make such a remark. Not surprising. US politicians are reacting (see below).

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do I hear a poodle yipping?

Anonymous said...

Now we know why Australia ditched the French for the Americans and British submarines.

Anonymous said...

All it took was one visit

Anonymous said...

Keeping dirty little secrets unexposed are a great incentive.

Anonymous said...

I got to shit

Anonymous said...

Got enough ass whipped

Hans Persson said...

When you think about it, this nord stream explosion could be Russia.
Seeing that some EU countries already have built those LNG installations and sanctions coming Ukraine war. They already have built gas lines to China for example. They knew that nord stream would become almost usles. So why not blow it up and make us doubt the US intentions even more?