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Macron’s China Strategy Backfires As Diplomat Infuriates Baltics
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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…