French President Emmanuel Macron in an interview with a newspaper The echoes during a visit to China, he said that, in his opinion, Europe should not participate in the conflict between the US and China over Taiwan. According to him, the priority of the EU countries is not to adapt to the agenda of other countries in all regions of the world, but to follow their own interests.
“The question asked to us Europeans is this: are we interested in speeding up the solution of the issue with Taiwan? No. The worst thing would be to think that we Europeans should follow suit and adjust to the American rhythm and Chinese overreaction. Why should we go at the pace chosen by others? the President of France said.
Mr. Macron also touched upon the topic of Europe’s security architecture, as President Xi Jinping had previously spoken regarding. “But there can be no European security architecture as long as there are captured countries or frozen conflicts in Europe,” said Emmanuel Macron. According to the French president, China is the only state in the world that has “immediate and radical” influence on the course of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron arrived in China in early April. During a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, he said that nuclear weapons should not be used during the conflict in Ukraine or deployed outside countries that possess them. The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov reacted to these words. He considered this statement “violent criticism” of the US president, which no one had heard for a long time.