This is a historic gesture: Paris therefore decided on Friday September 17 to recall its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations, after the cancellation of the contract for the supply of French submarines, in favor of a strategic partnership with Washington and London.
An unprecedented decision, commensurate with the slap not only commercial, but above all diplomatic, inflicted by the United States on their French ally.
Because the AUKUS agreement (for "Australia", "United Kingdom" and "United States"), set up to counter China, in fact means a marginalization of France and Europe in the Indo-Pacific region, a key region of the 21st century.
The diplomatic crisis "the most important since Iraq in 2003"
France's first reaction had been timid: the cancellation of its participation in a gala evening scheduled for Friday, September 16 in Washington.
Ironically, this reception, at the residence of the French Ambassador to Washington, was supposed to celebrate the anniversary of a decisive naval battle in the war.
This article is for subscribers only.
You have 84% left to discover.
Freedom has no borders, like your curiosity.
Continue reading your article for € 1 the first month
I ENJOY IT
Already subscribed? Log in
