Tuesday 11 April 2023

Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, has come under fire for declaring that Europe should have a stance on Taiwan that is different from that of the United States or China.





(Reuters) PARIS - By asserting that Europe should become a pole of power and that Europe has no interest in escalating tensions over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron has drawn some criticism. Third, unattached to Beijing and Washington. On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, the AFP news agency published this.

During a three-day trip to China last week, McCormack spoke with Les Echos and Politico and said: "The worst thing is to think that we in Europe need to be walkers."Follow them throughout the area (Taiwan) and adjust to either the US or Chinese stance.

Politicians in the US and Europe have attacked the French president's policy for pandering to China. According to a tweet from German member Norbert Roettgen, French President Emmanuel Macron made Xi Jinping's trip to China a public relations triumph. An absolute disaster for European foreign policy. Senator of the United States Marco Rubio said: "Perhaps we shouldn't take sides on the Ukraine crisis if Europe does not want to choose between the US and China over Taiwan." _


Beijing has never ruled out using military force to bring Taiwan back together since it sees Taiwan as a part of its territory. After the Taiwanese president met with the speaker of the US House of Representatives in California on Monday, the Chinese military just finished a three-day drill in the vicinity of Taiwan.



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