The national secretary of the PCF Fabien Roussel considers like Jean-Luc Mélenchon that the visit of the president of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan is a "
provocation
", assuring that the writings of the leader of LFI did
not "shock
" him.
.
“
What he wrote did not shock me
,” he said in Liberation on Monday August 8.
“
Diplomacy is precisely the art of balance and nuance.
So it's no exaggeration to say that Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taipei is anything but nuance and balance!
At a time when tensions in the world are very exacerbated, everything must be done to avoid the slightest provocation
, ”says Fabien Roussel.
It is therefore according to him "
unwelcome that a single country
", in this case the United States, "
decide on such an initiative to provoke an incident with China
", he adds.
Wave of criticism
In the midst of tensions between Beijing and Taipei, Jean-Luc Mélenchon considered in two successive blog posts, Thursday and Saturday, that Nancy Pelosi's visit constituted "
a provocation
", while "
there is only one China
", which "
seats among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council
", and that "
Taiwan is an integral component of China
" - a term defended by the Beijing regime but refused by the authorities in Taipei.
“
The Chinese will settle the problem among themselves
,” he concluded.
His first post triggered a salvo of criticism in the ranks of EELV and the PS, allied with LFI and the PCF within Nupes, while the International-Europe sector of the PCF used the same vocabulary as him, speaking of "
inconsequential provocation in an already particularly dangerous world situation
”.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, however, challenged Fabien Roussel, who for his part remained silent, in his second post published on Saturday in response to criticism, the leader of LFI wondering "
where
" he had "
gone
".
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Questioned also in Liberation on the fact that this episode confirms the differences of opinion of the members of the Nupes on international subjects, Fabien Roussel believes that "
it's normal
" and that they "
never hid it
", but that “
this does not prevent (them) from working together
”.
At EELV, national secretary Julien Bayou denounced on Friday "
a fairly dated vision
" and "
a real cynicism in terms of geopolitics
" on the part of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, while the boss of the PS Olivier Faure judged that if "
the opportunity of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is debatable, the desire of the Taiwanese to live in a democracy is not
.