Europe: The Disunited Front

Even the Financial Times’s editors grouse that President Macron’s idea of France as a “balancing power” in global politics is causing “unhelpful ambiguity.”

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Presidents Macron, second from right, and Xi, left, outside the Great Hall of the People at Beijing, April 6, 2023. AP/Ng Han Guan, pool

America’s alliance with Europe seems to be something less than a united front. No sooner did President Biden impose new technology trade limits on Communist China than — incroyable, mais vrai — President Macron fetches up at Beijing, following Chancellor Scholz’s visit, to strengthen trade ties with President Xi’s regime. It’s a troubling breach in what ought to be Western unity against a rising adversary. 

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