Commentary
Europe must reduce its dependency on the United States and avoid getting dragged into a confrontation between Beijing and the U.S. over Taiwan, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview on his plane journey back from a three-day state visit to China last week.
According to the report by Politico journalists, Macron emphasised his pet theory of “strategic autonomy” for Europe, presumably led by France, to become a “third superpower.”
Macron also argued that Europe had increased its dependency on the U.S. for weapons and energy and must now focus on boosting European defense industries.
Macron has a short memory….