French President Emmanuel Macron will tell his European peers the AUKUS crisis could be an opportunity to make the case to the United States that the European Union can play a strategic role in the Indo-Pacific, French officials said on Monday.
Australia's decision to cancel a big submarine contract with France and go for U.S.-designed vessels instead as part of a new security alliance with Washington and Britain to counter China has riled France and caused tension between Western allies.
European Union countries can play a strategic role in the Indo-Pacific region with the United States in terms of trade, security, defence and defending freedom of navigation, the official said, without elaborating. "We don't want to push Europeans into making a sort of binary choice between partnership with the U.S. or Europe turning inward," the Macron adviser said.
Macron has struggled to convince all EU member states to get on board with his push for European "strategic autonomy" in the field of defence, with many in eastern Europe especially seeing this as possibly weakening the transatlantic security alliance.
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