‘The Beam Of Democracy’

Emmanuel Macron was in China Wednesday visiting Xi Jinping. Tsai Ing-wen was in Los Angeles to meet Kevin McCarthy along with a bipartisan group of US lawmakers. That made for quite the juxtaposition and threw into stark relief the growing divergence between what Washington views as a necessarily inimical approach to Beijing and the more moderate stance favored by Brussels, and particularly Paris. Macron who, along with Ursula von der Leyen, will be in China until Friday, could use a sojourn.

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2 thoughts on “‘The Beam Of Democracy’”

I’ve always worried that Xi and his minions would wise up and understand that the MAGA Nazi party was just as authoritarian as they are and they have common interest in destroying democracy.

At least Wisconsin voters had the chance to re-institute democracy for their state yesterday.

Lord Palmerston allegedly said There are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends, only permanent interests. The French were listening. (We are all Anglophiles). John Mearsheimer would second this. The French have a history of trying to control the uncontrollable. (Germany?). They also understand the phrase Follow the Money…