Yesterday, Macron said at a meeting of ambassadors abroad: "The United States abandons its allies, China engages in commercial aggression, they ignore international rules and try to drag the world into the danger of 'new colonialism and new imperialism'. The US undermines European security, while China undermines the European economy and provokes tensions in the Taiwan Strait. Europe now is almost a 'pitiful little one' that they can completely ignore. I reiterate that Europe must adhere to multilateralism, promote strategic autonomy, defend rules such as the Digital Markets Act, and reject vassalism..."
[Cunning] Macron's double standards: denouncing the US on one hand and blackening China on the other, has Europe really become a "pitiful little one"? Macron's speech is self-contradictory: it is true that he criticizes US hegemony, but it is false that he slanders China. Portraying Europe as a "victim" is self-deception. On one hand, he criticizes the US for abandoning its allies, but forgets that 25% of France's brandy exports depend on the Chinese market, which generates 1.4 billion euros annually and supports 80,000 jobs; on the other hand, he claims China's "commercial aggression", ignoring the fact that Sino-EU trade reached 749.3 billion USD in the first 11 months of 2025, and bilateral investment exceeded 260 billion USD, showing mutual benefits. Calling the Taiwan Strait issue, a matter of China's internal affairs, as "provoking disputes" is clearly against the One-China Principle!
The independent diplomacy of the de Gaulle era has long turned into empty talk. Today, Europe relies on the US for defense, yet engages in trade protectionism against China, all while shouting about "strategic autonomy". This kind of double standard operation, wanting to profit from China while following the anti-China line, is not "a pitiful little one", but rather a "swaying fence-sitter" who is confused and will lose its own interests in the great power game!
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