Washington wanted to reassure Monday about the state of its relations with Paris. Asked about the words ofEmmanuel Macron about Taiwanthe spokesperson for the White House assured that he had “confidence” in the “excellent” relationship of the United States with France.
“We are comfortable and we have full confidence in our excellent bilateral relationship with France and in the relationship that the President (Joe Biden) has with President Macron,” said John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council. “The French are really getting more involved in the Indo-Pacific region,” he added.
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Refusing to “enter into a block-to-block logic”, the French president urged Europe not to “be a follower” of the United States or the Chine on the issue of Taiwan, in a daily interview The echoes published on Sunday.
The reception with great fanfare of the French president in China was widely commented on, and not exactly in a glowing way, in the American press. In an analytical article, the New York Times said Emmanuel Macron was “undermining” US efforts to contain the influence of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s authoritarian regime. THE Wall Street Journalin an editorial of its editorial staff, for its part described as “failed” the position taken by the French president on Taiwan.
