France loses two places in the ranking of diplomatic networks in the world, ahead of Turkey and Japan. In the latest ranking of world diplomacy published on Sunday by the Australian think tank The Lowy Institute, France fell to fifth position in 2023.
China remains in the lead, with 274 diplomatic representations, closely followed by the United States, which has 271. Beijing has occupied this first place since 2019, a sign of the ambitions of the People's Republic which, already second on the economic power scene, is aiming for the position of new world leader in 2049.