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Beijing-Taiwan crisis: “the fundamental question is who is threatening whom”

2022-08-08T14:31:37.822Z


INTERVIEW - When speaking about Taiwan, Western heads of state weigh their words carefully. But diplomatic finesse should not obscure the essential: the balance of power between the two states and the belligerent attitude of the Beijing regime, explains researcher Antoine...


Antoine Bondaz is a professor at Sciences Po and a research fellow at the Foundation for Strategic Research, where he notably directs the FRS-KF Korea Program on security and diplomacy as well as the Taiwan Program on security and diplomacy.

FIGAROVOX.

- On his personal blog, Jean-Luc Mélenchon affirmed that "

Taiwan is an integral part of China

", and he was thanked for this by the Chinese Embassy in France.

How do you view these remarks?

Antoine Bondaz.

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These are not the only words that Jean-Luc Mélenchon holds and for which he is thanked by the Chinese Embassy in France.

But with regard to this specific sentence, France's position is not far from it.

An important term is used in the Franco-Chinese joint communiqué, dated January 12, 1994, on the re-establishment of cooperative relations between France and China in which the French side affirms that it considers "

Taiwan as an integral part...

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Source: lefigaro

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