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Macron’s China Strategy Backfires As Diplomat Infuriates Baltics
"It is strange to hear an absurd version of the 'history of Crimea' from a representative of a country that is scrupulous about its thousand-year history," Volodymyr Zelensky's top advisor, Mykhailo Podolyak, said Sunday.
Podolyak was referring to Lu Shaye, China's ambassador to France, who, in an interview with French television, suggested the Baltic states might not be states, and alluded to the notion that Crimea is rightfully Russia's.
"There's no international agreement" on the "effective
I remember watching the annual military parade on the Champs-Elysee with a French friend, around 1999. He turned to me and said “we are a little rooster, walking around with our breast protruding” (translating from memory). Xi must have thought “little rooster for my pot” when meeting with Macron.
Ha! So true.
France is a country that is in denial about ww2. They have a history of thinking they can control Germany. De Gaulle didn’t want the UK in the common market. Being on the “winning side” of WW2 didn’t help France or Italy as far as their contact with reality. Whereas Germany and Japan made enormous progress because they had to. Maybe Macron thinks he can manipulate China. I don’t…