Commentary
In hopes of advancing his ambitions for “strategic autonomy” of Europe from the United States, during his April 5–7 state visit to China, French President Emmanuel Macron did far more than give Chinese Communist Party (CCP) dictator Xi Jinping a propaganda victory by publicly suggesting some kind of weird moral equivalence between U.S. and Chinese policy regarding Taiwan.
In interviews published on March 9 in Les Echos and Politico regarding Taiwan, Macron said, “The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans must be followers and adapt ourselves to the American rhythm and a Chinese overreaction.”
For Macron, somehow, U.S. policies that seek to arm Taiwan and deter a Chinese invasion are indistinguishable from the CCP’s decades of preparation to invade and destroy Taiwan’s democracy, including putting masses of its “democrats” in concentration camps….