Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically supported Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy, and Chinese officials continue to refer to it in dealings with European countries.
Europe should reduce its reliance on the United States and avoid being drawn into the confrontation between China and the United States over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron told Politico on his return from a three-day state visit to China.
Macron emphasized his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, probably led by France, to become a “third superpower”.
He said the “great danger” facing Europe is that it “falls into crises that are not ours, preventing it from developing its strategic autonomy.”
Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have enthusiastically supported Macron’s concept of strategic autonomy, and Chinese officials continue to refer to it in dealings with European countries. Party leaders and theorists in Beijing are convinced that the West is declining and China is rising, and that the weakening of transatlantic relations will help accelerate this trend.
“The irony is that, in panic, we consider ourselves only followers of America,” Macron said. “The question that Europeans must answer is… is it in our interest to accelerate the crisis in Taiwan? No. The worst thing is to think that we Europeans should be followers on this issue and take an example from America’s agenda,” he said. He.
Macron also argues that Europe has increased its dependence on the US for weapons and energy and should now focus on building a European defense industry.
He also suggested that Europe reduce its reliance on the “extraterritoriality of the US dollar.”
“If tensions between the two superpowers rise … we will not have the time or resources to fund our strategic autonomy and we will become vassals,” he said.
Recall that earlier Macron admitted that in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war, “the time is now military” and the time for negotiations has not come.
Source: korrespondent
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