Some commentators have criticized Emmanuel Macron's visit to Jeddah on December 4, 2021, over Saudi Arabia's poor human rights record.
They are wrong.
In principle and in the present case.
In principle, the foreign policy of a large and old country like France cannot be limited to visiting other democracies on the planet.
Diplomacy, which is the art of keeping the world at peace, must address as a priority the States with which we have differences, in order to try to bridge them.
It would be dangerous to believe that modern diplomacy can be reduced to an intercontinental distribution of virtue prizes by the Western powers.
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In the case in point, the young man (36) who rules Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed Ben Salman (MBS), is anything but blameless.
In 2015, he unnecessarily launched a war against Huti rebels in northern Yemen.
This war, mainly fought by
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