The leader of the Insoumis persists and signs. Jean-Luc Mélenchon had described Thursday as a “provocation” the visit of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi on the island of Taiwan. Enough to ruffle his Nupes partners (New People’s Ecological and Social Union) who said it loud and clear. On Saturday, he reuses the same term in a new post on his blog and reaffirms: “There is only one China”. In his Thursday post, he also estimated, in full tensions between Beijing and Taipeithat “the Chinese will settle the problem among themselves”.
He says he is “spanked” by the “very strange reactions” and the “outraged cries” of his critics, while “we must not want a new war front”. “What kind of fear reigns over the debate? Where is the active president of Franco-Chinese friendships Mr. Raffarin? And the signatories of the UMP’s cooperation agreement with the Chinese Communist Party? And Fabien Roussel (the national secretary of the PCF, editor’s note), following his recent friendship trip to China? The sufficiency of the first and the frightened prudence of the second dismay me,” writes Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
“I have only repeated the constant doctrine of our country”
And to reiterate his arguments: “I have only repeated the constant doctrine of our country (France, let us remember) since 1965 with regard to China. There is only one China”, “this is also regulated by international agreements accepted by our country and the members of the UN”, and “China and the USA are committed to respecting the sovereignty and unity territory of the other”. He also underlines “the super cold reception received since his provocation by Ms. Nancy Pelosi in Tokyo and Seoul”.
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The former presidential candidate wonders if his critics “think that millennial China will bow to their posturing”, and points to a risk of seeing Beijing “enter into closer convergence with Russia” while ” a more homogeneous bloc between the USA and Europe no matter what in terms of enslavement and the risk of war”.
He once once more advocates the “non-alignment” of Paris
“Macron’s France has given up playing a role in this world part”, he also laments, advocating a “non-alignment” of Paris, at the heart of its vision of international relations. Whereas the Chinese Embassy in France thanked him in a tweet, he defends himself by republishing a sentence from his previous post: “Whatever the scope and level of criticism that may be leveled at the Chinese government, we must refuse to condone war on China to satisfy the US’s views on Taiwan. “.
Within the left alliance Nupes, the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou had denounced Friday “a rather dated vision” and “a real cynicism in terms of geopolitics” on the part of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The head of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faurejudged that if “the advisability of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan is debatable, the will of the Taiwanese to live in a democracy is not”.
