France's top envoy to Australia will become its first ambassador for the Indo-Pacific amid rising concerns about the Chinese Communist Party's growing influence in the region. auspol china europeanunion ambassador
France's top envoy to Australia will become its first ambassador for the Indo-Pacific amid rising concerns about the Chinese Communist Party's growing influence in the region.
France's Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, has pushed for an Indo-Pacific "axis, with France, India and Australia as its backbone" to develop foreign policy as global tensions increase. The trilateral dialogue would work separately from "the Quad", which includes Japan, the United States, Australia and India and has a security focus.
"France and Australia have a special responsibility there to ensure that the world post COVID does not become worse and, if possible, that it becomes better than the world before," he said. Parly told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore last year that trade wars, tech wars and wars of words were "only the beginning" of a sharp decline in international relations.
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