French President Emmanuel Macron held talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on his recent official visit, which dealt with bilateral relations between the two countries as well as relations between Beijing and Europe on the occasion of accompanying Mrs. Ursula Funder Lane, President of the European Union, but this visit did not deviate from what was expected, except that its conclusion and inside the plane French President Macron made press statements that were enough to spark controversy in Paris and international decision-making capitals. In the general context, the French president did not say anything new for those who follow French politics, but the surprise was in the direct language that Macron used. The president talks about European strategic autonomy away from American hegemony, and here he called for reducing dependence on the dollar, and for European countries not to take a biased position in the framework of the US-Chinese conflict. A French friend sarcastically said to me: Macron went to change China's view of Russia and its war in Ukraine, and then he came back adopting China's view of confronting American hegemony!
France, and behind it Europe, feels very disappointed with the Democratic administration in the White House, especially after the slap it dealt to Paris after it persuaded Australia to abandon the submarine deal that the latter had concluded with Paris. This matter did not only mean giving up billions of dollars and a huge number of opportunities. Work, but it showed France completely naked on the global level because it simply swallowed the insult and could only respond with some angry statements, thus showing its weakness and helplessness. And the American strategic strikes against Paris continued when Washington excluded it from the alliances that it woven with Australia and the United Kingdom in the Pacific Ocean, although France is concerned with the security of that region considering its military bases and its islands in the overseas territories, and yet America insisted on making the alliances “the Anglo-Saxon club.” ». And as soon as the Russian war began in Ukraine, the European leaders turned into disciples of Uncle Sam, drawing a military strategy for it and defining areas of military support for Kiev. The high price of economic sanctions, but Washington dealt with it like any greedy and exploitative merchant, so it raised gas prices four times, which made Macron shout (this is not how friends are).
We can understand the state of anger of the French president in front of all these American policies, and we can look at his statements as legitimate dreams and rosy wishes, but the president needs someone to bestow upon him the verse of Ahmed Shawqi, who says: The demands of wishing are not achieved, but the world is taken over, because desire The French are offset by the fact that Europe is unable to build an effective political model, and is naked without the security and military cover of NATO. Rather, the French model began to lose its attractiveness and began to enter the tunnel of inactivity, as it is ineffective on more than one level, such as education, industry, modern technology, artificial intelligence, and others. Europe, like France, needs more than ever to redefine its role and position in a world in difficult labor.
Rami al-Khalifa al-Ali