Submarines: media, Biden and Johnson fed up with Macron reaction

(ANSA) - LONDON, SEPTEMBER 23 - In public they tried to graduate from Paris, but in private Joe Biden and Boris Johnson seem not to have concealed a certain annoyance from each other for the levels reached by the furious reaction of French President Emmanuel Macron in front of the 3 pact (Aukus) for the containment of China in the Indo-Pacific area announced in recent days by the USA, the United Kingdom and Australia: a pact that caused France to lose a billionaire supply of submarines in Canberra, to the advantage of the Anglo-Saxon allies.

   The Daily Telegraph, a newspaper close to the British Tory Prime Minister, opened this morning, citing sources present at the summit between BoJo and the American president held Tuesday in the White House.

    During the meeting, according to the Telegraph, the two leaders - besides excluding the slightest rethinking on the Aukus operation - would be said to be "amazed" by the tones of Macron and his followers: "astonished", in the word referred to by the sources, which in English has a connotation of negative surprise in the face of exaggerated or inappropriate attitudes. A sign of irritation that, in spite of the attempts of mending initiated in the same hours by Washington and some timid mezzo mea culpa offered by the Biden administration in Paris, could weigh on future relations within NATO. And which, according to the newspaper, is based on not a few precedents of episodes of recurrent competition (even among allies) on the terrain of military salesmen, of which France has had no qualms in the past to be a protagonist. (HANDLE).