Reflections on the Guillotine

New Thinking for a New World · Apr 20, 2023 · 33m

Pierre Lellouche is deeply worried about what he sees as Macron’s strategic and political mistakes and the consequences for his country.

French President, Emmanuel Macron, has had a complicated few weeks.

On the one hand, China's President Xi gave him red-carpet treatment in Beijing, where Macron, again, made his case for European strategic sovereignty—code for independence from the United States—and said that Europe should not follow America’s lead on Taiwan. Both were music to Chinese ears. On the other, his Taiwan comments stirred widespread anger across Europe and, of course, in…