A Fracture Within the Atlantic Front By Orçun Göktürk, PhD Candidate at UIBE in Beijing / China French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to China coincided with a period of rising China–Japan tensions and a short-lived “ceasefire” in China–US relations following the Busan talks. It also unfolded in an atmosphere where both Beijing’s strategy of “flexible diplomacy” toward Europe and ...
French President Emmanuel Macron has advocated in various statements at different times for the creation of an independent European pole that is distant from the US, opposed to Russia and cooperating with China. To understand and evaluate Macron’s statements, it is useful to put the pieces back together, which were displaced with the Ukraine War. First, let me underline the ...