France Is Reportedly Making A Principled Stand Against NATO’s Expansion To Asia
Andrew Korybko- Macron’s position isn’t driven by the desire to do any favors for President Xi, but is predicated on his assessment of #France’s national interests.
Macron’s position isn’t driven by the desire to do any favors for President Xi, but is predicated on his assessment of France’s national interests.
The Financial Times cited eight unnamed sources who revealed that France is reportedly preventing the planned opening of NATO’s liaison office in Japan. According to them, Macron believes that this move violates the alliance’s charter, which limits its geographic reach to the North Atlantic. He’s also supposedly against anything that can contribute to NATO-Chinese tensions. The spanner that the French leader unexpected threw into the bloc’s Asian expansion plans comes after his trip to China in early April.
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