French President Emmanuel Macron favors “shifting the center of European gravity towards China,” according to Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
“I do not quite understand the concept of strategic autonomy if it means de facto shooting into our own knee,” Morawiecki said Thursday. “European autonomy sounds fancy, doesn't it? But it means shifting the center of European gravity towards China and severing the ties with [the] U.S.”Morawiecki did not identify Macron by name, but the reference to the French leader’s signature “strategic autonomy” concept made the rebuke unmistakable.
The criticism underscored the difficulty that Macron faces in persuading Central and Eastern European countries to embrace his vision for the European Union. Macron traveled to Beijing last week, in conjunction with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for a series of meetings that U.S. and many European officials hoped would showcase Western unity in the midst of the war in Ukraine and Chinese saber-rattling around Taiwan.
That rhetoric, delivered as it was from China during a moment of high geopolitical tension, startled many trans-Atlantic observers and sent French officials scrambling to explain that Macron’s initiatives would reinforce the alliance rather than fray it."Of course, we stand with the U.S., and let's avoid any misunderstanding,” French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Fox News’s Bret Baier on Wednesday evening.
Their divergent tones point to a debate within European capitals about the strategic cultures of the leading European Union and NATO member states — their appetites for confrontation, and their assessment of how to manage risk, with Russia and China. Baerbock has emerged as one of Berlin’s most voluble advocates of military aid for Ukraine over the last year.
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