Macron “The Chinese” wants to disengage Europe from the USA to take it elsewhere
As the US battles the recent wave of countries “de-dollarizing” – i.e. trading commodities in other currencies – it appears that Macron's France is turning its back on them.
After spending about six hours with Chinese President Xi Jinping as part of a three-day state visit to China, Macron made it clear that France wants nothing to do with World War III, stressing that Europe it must employ "strategic autonomy," presumably led by France, to become a "third superpower," according to Politico.
Speaking to journalists aboard the COTAM Unité, the French Air Force One, the French President said that the "great risk" that Europe runs right now is that of "remaining entangled in crises that are not ours, the which prevents it from building its strategic autonomy”.
It is not the first time that Macron has suggested reducing dependence on the United States. In November, the French president called for a "single global order" by discussing the power interests of Russia and China and the threat of war.
"We're in a jungle and we have two big elephants trying to get more and more nervous," he said. “If they get really nervous and start a war, it's going to be a big problem for the rest of the jungle. The collaboration of many other animals is needed, tigers, monkeys and so on,” added Macron. And China agrees with this view.
Macron's concept of strategic autonomy was "enthusiastically endorsed" by Xi and the CCP, who then focused on the idea that the West is in decline while China rises, and how weakening transatlantic relations will accelerate this trend.
“The paradox would be that, panicked, we believe we are just followers of America,” Macron said. “The question Europeans need to answer… is it in our interest to accelerate [a crisis] on Taiwan? No. The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must become followers on this topic and take a cue from the US agenda and an overreaction from China”.
Just hours after its flight left Guangzhou to return to Paris, China has launched major military exercises around the self-governed island of Taiwan, which China claims as its territory but which the United States has promised to arm and defend.
The drills were a response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen's 10-day diplomatic tour of Central American countries, which included a meeting with Republican US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during his transit through California. People familiar with Macron's thoughts said he was happy Beijing had at least waited until he was out of Chinese airspace before launching the simulated "encirclement of Taiwan" exercise. -Politic
Macron's submissive statements come after he and Xi had "intense" discussions about Taiwan, according to French officials who accompanied the president. That said, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who accompanied Macron, said she underlined the stability of the region, telling Xi during their meeting in Beijing last Thursday that "the threat [of] using the force to change the status quo is unacceptable”.
According to the report, Xi responded by calling anyone who thinks they can influence the CCP on Taiwan deluded. “Europeans are unable to solve the crisis in Ukraine; how can we credibly say in Taiwan: 'attention, if you do something wrong we will be there'? If you really want to escalate tensions, this is the way to do it,” Xi said.
According to Yanmei Xie, geopolitical analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, “ Europe is more willing to accept a world in which China becomes a regional hegemon”. "Some of its leaders even believe that such a world order could be more beneficial for Europe."
During Xi's trilateral talks with von der Leyen and Macron last Thursday, the Chinese leader was disappointed by two points:
“Xi was visibly annoyed at being held responsible for the conflict in Ukraine and downplayed his recent visit to Moscow,” a source in the room said. “He was clearly enraged about the United States and very angry about Taiwan, the transit of the Taiwanese president to the United States, and [that] foreign policy issues were being raised by the Europeans.”
In this meeting, Macron and von der Leyen took similar positions on Taiwan. But Macron subsequently spent more than four hours with the Chinese leader, many of them with only the presence of translators, and his tone was far more conciliatory than von der Leyen's when speaking to reporters. -Politician Macron has suggested that Europe is too dependent on the US for arms and energy, and that it must now focus on boosting its defense industries.
If we think that the EU has been supported by the US DEMs with the aim of better controlling the various states, we can understand how, for the umpteenth time, the US has been blind in foreign policy. If Macron succeeds in his objective, we will have a Europe closer to China's positions and politically and economically very distant from Washington.
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