After weeks of protests over an unpopular pension overhaul plan at home, the French president now faces outrage from allies abroad over his chummy trip to China and remarks on the need for Europe to stand apart from the U.S. on Taiwan and other issues.
disclosing the fact that French officials had granted the interview on the condition that they could “proofread” the quotes and had cut material where the French president “spoke even more frankly about Taiwan and Europe’s strategic autonomy.”
“Does Macron really believe it is none of Europe’s business when China attempts to shape a world order solely based on Chinese interests and power?” asked Norbert Roettgen, a German member of Parliament, on“Macron,” Roettgen said, “has managed to turn his China trip into a PR coup for Xi and a foreign policy disaster for Europe.”
“And why say it now?” he continued. “At the current moment, the priority for every European politician should be to keep the U.S. engaged in Ukraine and have as strong as possible an alliance on Ukraine.”
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