The People's Liberation Army is practicing a total blockade of Taiwan. Chinese pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine remains non-existent. And the tentative European Union-U.S. effort to defend the democratic rule of law has been greatly undermined.
Thus, in China, we learned the true definition of French President Emmanuel Macron's foreign policy doctrine of"strategic autonomy." It's the doctrine of France first, even if all her allies suffer heavily for it.Although entirely predictable, there's a not-so-slight irony at play here. Macron, after all, likes to present himself as the anti-Trump of international affairs.
In return for Chinese commitments to increase trade, Macron allowed his traveling partner, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, to be utterly humiliated by Xi Jinping. As Macron received red carpets and intimate personal audiences with Xi, von der Leyen was left out in the cold. Xi knows as much. He's utterly convinced that European leaders can be cowed into submission by his dangling of Communist gold. Hence his systematic refusal to give an inch on the war in Ukraine. The ludicrous juxtaposition of Macron's beaming face as he met Communist Party students, and Xi's stiff refusal to move on Ukraine, must surely have inspired the confidence of the EU's eastern flank members.
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