Thursday, April 20, 2023

When Macron met Xi: welcome to the new world disorder | Emmanuel Macron | The Guardian

When Macron met Xi: welcome to the new world disorder | Emmanuel Macron | The Guardian - Simon Tisdall
  • China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacy
"...The latest explosion was ignited by an interview Macron gave after a visit last weekend to Beijing, where he was showered with flattering attention by President Xi Jinping. 
On China policy, European countries were too subservient to the US and should not be Washington’s “followers”, he suggested. 
Being an ally does not mean being a vassal… [or] mean we don’t have the right to think for ourselves.”
  •  Macron also implied that defending democratic Taiwan from a Ukraine-type Chinese invasion was not Europe’s business...
A walk in the garden for Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron
A walk in the garden for Xi Jinping and Emmanuel Macron at the residence of the governor of Guangdong, where Xi’s father lived. Photograph: Jacques Witt/AFP/Getty Images...

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