Macron: Europe will fall victim to the trade competition between Washington and Beijing
The French President Emmanuel Macron warned, at the start of his state visit to the United States, Wednesday, of the danger that Europe in general and France in particular would fall victim to the current trade competition between Washington and Beijing, the two largest economic powers in the world.
In a speech he delivered at the French Embassy in Washington in front of the French community, Macron considered that “the danger lies in the fact that the United States, in facing the challenges of the times, looks first at the United States, and this is normal… and then looks at the competition with China, and in a way, it becomes Europe and France are like a game changer”.
France has long stressed that it does not see itself as a biased ally with regard to China, at a time when the United States has made strategic competition with Beijing its main strategic focus.
The French president also warned that the US program of investments and subsidies to help local businesses threatened to “fragment the West”.
Macron stressed, “I said with great honesty and friendship to members of Congress that what happened in recent months represents a challenge for us: the choices taken… especially the inflation reduction law are choices that will lead to the fragmentation of the West”.
Macron said in Washington on Wednesday night that the alliance with the United States is stronger than everything.
In a speech he delivered to the French community at the French Embassy in Washington, Macron called for “to try together to rise to the level of what history has woven between us, to an alliance stronger than everything”.
Macron added that his second official visit to the United States, after the one he made in 2018, “also shows the strength of the relationship between the United States and France”.
