French President Emmanuel Macron gave his annual speech to France’s diplomatic corps yesterday and repeated messages he had already delivered in the preceding years. This year, President Macron emphasised on good relationships with China and that the G7 should not serve a a competitor of BRICS. President Macron said that we live in a multilateral world and that we need to cooperate with Chin and BRICS.
This is not in any way a tactical position derived due to recent events: this is actually has been the consistent position of the French President across the years. There seems to be genuine hope that trade relations with China will improve relations between the countries. Some also have very grand delusions that by having good relations with China or Russia we can convince them in giving up their military alliance between each other.
There are some definite gross misreadings of the intentions carried by China, and these misreading seem to carry the similar mistakes when we wrongly ignored Russia’s growing threat against Europe. People often perceive things the way they imagine them or want to be, often failing to acknowledge their apparent evil. One gross misunderstanding about China in the West is that China is flexing its war machine against Taiwan and the Philippines because it is protecting “its sphere of influence” and that China’s belligerence is contained around its borders and the South China Sea. This is a very gross misreading of China’s interests.
The politics of the Communist Party of China is a combination of hard nationalism, dictatorial communism and state capitalism: this is a typical set-up of a fascist dictatorship. China is pursuing its goal of achieving “Middle Kingdom” status: the number one spot in the global-super power chart. Failing to acknowledge this is a gross error of judgement.
President Macron is aware of the growing dangers in today’s world, and is one of Europe’s strongest backers in its defence and security, but President Macron is still seeing the world with the eyes of a banker living in the WTO era and has failed to fully adapt to the international imperialism and belligerence of China and Russia today.
The political focus of European leaders should be consistent with the need of the times and this focus should be underpinned with the need for Europe to strive to super-power status with the full awareness that China is upending the international-world order including by backing and supporting all the hostile actors against Europe to this end.
Meanwhile, President Macron also rejected to sign the Mercusor agreement, becoming the last European leader required to approve of the current draft agreement.
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