Rarely has a diplomatic trip aroused as much criticism as that of President Macron in the always red and more than ever totalitarian China of Xi Jinping.
If we make an exception to the embarrassing satisfaction of Chinese diplomacy, which rejoices, our correspondent in Beijing, Sébastien Falletti nicely notes, "of the
gift on a lacquered tray"
that France has just offered it by affirming that it wants to keep an equidistant the United States / China confrontation, the reactions are scathing.
Mike Pompeo's former China adviser, Miles Yu, a professor at the United States Naval Academy, notably evokes
"a
tragic
" French diplomatic disaster
.
The American strategist Andrew Michta denounces him,
"a blow to NATO unity as a decisive Alliance summit approaches"
, in July.
The German and Central European press is hardly kinder…
This outcry calls for an urgent examination of the flaws in the Macron method.
For sure, there is in the approach to the Élysée, beyond…
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