In 2018, during his first presidential trip to China, Emmanuel Macron had, all fire, offered to mediate between Xi Jinping and… the Dalai Lama.
No one had asked for it and we know what happened to it: nothing.
Five years later, it is a much more blunt head of state who embarks on a high-flying diplomatic exercise: to establish, with Vladimir Putin's best ally and Joe Biden's worst enemy, balanced relations allowing the Europe and France to pull out of the game. An increasingly brutal international game, in which the Old Continent seeks to exist between the Sino-American showdown and the "limitless" Russian-Chinese
alliance
, fueled by the war in Ukraine.
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It took our leaders thirty years to slowly emerge from the dream of an alignment of powers in the liberal and capitalist orbit of the American star.
Global trade rules would normalize China like the eruption of capitalism…
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