OUR Emmanuel Macron “refuses to enter block logic” and asks her Europe not be a follower USA or her China on Taiwan in an interview with Les Echos.

“The worst would be to think that we Europeans should follow the ‘Taiwan issue’ and adapt to the American pace or China’s overreaction,” the French president said in an interview published today and on Friday during his visit to China and before start of Chinese military exercises to encircle Taiwan.

“Our priority is not to adapt to the agenda of others in all regions of the world,” he says. “Why should we tune in to the pace chosen by others? At this point, we must ask ourselves a question of our own interest, knowing that we do not want to enter into the logic of blocks.”

The French President discussed the issue of Taiwan with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and, as the French President stated, “the discussion was dense and frank”, while Emmanuel Macron drew attention to the accumulation of tension in the region, “which could lead to a serious accident.”

In an interview, the French president argues that Europe must fight for strategic autonomy and warns of a worsening conflict between the two poles represented by the US and China and the risk that “there is no longer time or money.” to finance this strategic autonomy.” “We will become vassals, and we can become a third pole if we have a few years to build it,” he says.

“The paradox is that at the moment when we are creating elements of true European strategic autonomy, trying to follow American policy because of some kind of panic reflex,” Emmanuel Macron warns, expressing satisfaction that he “won the ideological battle” . “In the European Union: for five years we have been saying that European sovereignty does not exist.”

The French president is calling for stronger European defenses and an accelerated battle for nuclear and renewable energy in Europe.

^{Source: APE-MEB, AFP.}