What is the reason for Macron visit to China?
French President Emmanuel Macron's visit to China this time was not normal, she sounded a wedge in the coffin of the European Union on the one hand, and the Union states' relationship with the United States on the other.
Emmanuel Macron's remarks also shocked many European Union countries, and the United States, in general, denounced them in detail.
France president turns on US
Macron sees Europe's real battle as strategic independence from America, and working to become a bloc with political, economic and military weight in the international arena.
Together with today's major actors (the United States, Russia and China), he also felt that the war in Ukraine was an orderly destruction of Europe, which today had to act in its own interest, not in the interests of others.
Emmanuel Macron reiterated France's support for the "one China" policy, which states that Beijing is the sole legitimate representative of the mainland and Taiwan, and that the island is an integral part of Chinese territory.
Macron called on all Europeans to take an independent position on the Taiwan issue away from the rivalry between China and the United States, in the sense that Europe has its position in favor of a peaceful resolution of the Taiwan issue, as Beijing puts it: "one country, two systems."
Macron repeated the words of Chinese President Xi Jinping, who had already spoken of today's changes in the world, not in 100 years.
Macron angers US
President Macron has worsened his country's domestic protests, reflecting poor economic conditions, high prices, loss of energy and other problems.
In his view, the United States bore a large part of that, starting with the cancellation of Australia's French submarine deal.
which is estimated to cost 35 billion euros as a result of the United States' entry on the line and its persuasion of Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines.
In a new deal with the United States and Britain known as the "Aukus" deal, which caused France to lose large sums of money.
Position of the United States and the United Kingdom on France
America and Britain believe that the submarine deal is not a trade deal, but an issue of strategic transformations in the world.
that led to the formation of the tripartite alliance between England, America and Australia (Okos), and that France, if invited to join that alliance, would not accept it.
U.S. protectionist policies on some domestic industries have also caused more losses to French exports to the United States.
At the start of the war in Ukraine, the United States asked European countries to participate in the economic blockade of Moscow and not to buy gas from Russia.
In contrast to America's pledge to supply gas to European countries, the price of American gas was too high, reaching more than 4 times Russian gas, causing more burdens on French citizens.
Alliance of France and China
The U.S. argument is that America is not a gas producer, and that it sells liquefied gas to European countries, a heavy gas that needs to be transported by steamer at a very high cost.
It cannot sell them gas at a low price, as Putin did, and the companies selling American gas are private companies, so the US government cannot put any pressure on them.
After reaching the French presidency in 2017, Macron called for Europe to become strong and able to lead the world through the formation of a united European force.
In 2018, he called for the formation of a European army, so that Europe would not remain dependent on NATO, which now consists of 30 European countries, as well as the United States of America.
Based on this vision, he believes that leadership should be in the hands of Europe rather than America, specifically France, given its significant role in the international arena and its vast colonial history.
France retreats and supports Russia and China
In 2019, Macron felt that NATO was clinically dead, and another form of alliances should be sought in which Europe would take the lead.
In 2022, just before the start of the war in Ukraine, he visited Moscow and met with President Putin, reiterating that there would be no Russian invasion of Ukraine contrary to what the United States was saying.
After the Russian war in Ukraine, France was the hardest hit by the severance of relations with Russia, and protests that have become increasingly destabilizing.
This war caused the loss of the European citizen's life of well-being that he had used for decades, and the United States seemed to be unfamiliar with the crises of Europeans, causing Macron to give a speech saying, "We don't want to humiliate Russia."
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This position stemmed not from his love for Russia or for President Putin, but from his conviction that Russia (nuclear) could not be defeated, and that increasing pressure on Moscow would have severe consequences for the entire world, and specifically for Europe.
Macron has come to treat the Ukrainian cause as a mediator, not a party to the war, a qualitative and major change, and French support for Ukraine in its war against Moscow has been limited if compared to the rest of Europe.
Therefore, Macron was heavily criticized by some European countries, especially Western European countries, who saw that he went to beg the Chinese president to intervene and use his relationship with Moscow to persuade them to find a peaceful solution to the crisis in Ukraine.
America punishes France
In the United States of America's view, Europe was not forgiven for the principles proclaimed by U.S. President Wilson in 1918, 14 of which called for the right of peoples to self-determination, which fell short of the two then colonial powers (Britain and France).
Nor did the Europeans accept America's position on the 1956 tripartite aggression against Egypt, which sought to enshrine the European position as a United States position rather than the other way around.
In 1966, at the Cold War summit and strategic competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, Charles de Gaulle attempted to rebel against NATO as an intermediate bridge between East and West.
Sarkozy returned in 2009 and returned France to the Alliance with full membership 43 years after Charles de Gaulle withdrew from it and expelled American bases from French territory. The French move was welcomed by NATO and seen as a boost to the Alliance's strength.
US warns Macron
Charles de Gaulle called for Eurasia, and sought to get closer to the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, which Macron today calls for at the expense of Atlantic, as he seeks to move east towards China and Russia.
De Gaulle wanted France to be a third power between the Soviet Union and America, which he seeks today to make France and Europe a force between China and the United States of America, thus realizing the dream of France being the leader of the European continent.
In Washington's view, Macron is disguising her role in protecting and defending Europe, especially as she has shared European wars against Nazism and fascism in the past, and has helped France twice.
It protected it from Nazi occupation of its territory, but for which Europe would have fallen into the grip of the Soviet Union since the cold war.
Today it shares the Europeans' war against Bhutanese Russia, haunted by a desire to expand and return to the imperial era.
In Washington's view, Moscow would have been able to swallow all of Europe without the American presence in the international landscape; As a result of the American presence, the European continent has experienced a state of relaxation and prosperity.
What did America do with the EU
European States were not seeking to increase their strength and spend on their armies as a result of their dependence on the United States, and Europe was once united until 1990.
When U.S. President George W. Bush declared, after the defeat of the Soviet Union, that Europe was today free, full and united.
The international system currently in place (the post-cold-war regime), which the United States had the greatest role in formulating.
He gave two permanent seats to Europe on the United Nations Security Council, taking into account the historic rivalry between Britain and France, at the expense of other countries and blocs.
In the United States' view, any existing international order would have only one seat on the European continent, which would certainly not be for France, but for Germany, which was seeking to rebuild its military strength with an additional budget of up to Euro100 billion, making its military the largest and most powerful European.
Germany's economy is the largest on the European continent, contributing 27% of all European industries, followed by Italy's 16%, and France's only 11%.
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The United States of America also contributed to the Marshall Project to rebuild the destruction of World War II in Europe and rebuild its economies by providing in-kind and cash donations, as well as a package of long-term loans.
In conclusion, it seems that French-American relations will not return to their previous times, despite Macron's phone conversation with President Biden after his visit to China.
France had also begun to take practical steps to contribute to its move away from an alliance with the United States in search of its interests, which it had begun to see in cooperation with Beijing, especially since the latter did not interfere in States' internal affairs and did not link its economic cooperation to specific political agendas.
Macron declares war on US
Macron's statement on the importance of alleviating dependence on the US dollar, which Washington saw as a stab.
Macron's remarks provoked intense indignation in Eastern and Central Europe and part of Western Europe, where his States considered that his remarks belonged to France and not to the European Union.
Hungary's Prime Minister appears to be the only one who supported Macron, who supported Russia in its war against Ukraine, and questioned the usefulness of Western sanctions against Moscow.
The President of the European Commission, whose visit to Beijing coincided with Macron's visit, saw him speak for his country, not for the European Union, which opposed any change in Taiwan's status.
Beijing appears to have succeeded in creating a rift in the US-led Western alliance, and has responded to Macron's request that the Chinese president hear Zelensky's request for a telephone conversation between them.
That telephone conversation seemed to have been successful, with the agreement to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries, the designation of Ukraine's ambassador to Beijing and China's announcement that it would send a delegation to Ukraine and other States.
To hear the attention of all sides, which represents a victory for Beijing's "diplomacy of reconciliation", and a defeat for the United States, which has previously rejected the Chinese initiative to resolve the crisis in Ukraine and considered it worthless.
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