French President Emmanuel Macron warned Indo-Pacific leaders against a strict alignment with the United States in “confrontation” with China, while airing his grievance over Australia’s decision last year to purchase American nuclear submarines rather than French boats.
"We don't believe in hegemony, we don't believe in confrontation, we believe in stability," Macron told the Asai Pacific Economic Forum in Bangkok. “We are in the jungle and we have two big elephants, trying to become more and more nervous ... If they become very nervous and start war it will be a big problem for the rest of the jungle. You need cooperation of a lot of other animals: tigers, monkeys, and so on.
He argued that Australia’s original plan to purchase French submarines was “not confrontational to China because they are not nuclear-powered submarines.” The performance raises the prospect that Macron’s anger over AUKUS — as the trilateral nuclear deal involving Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom is known — could power a break with the wider U.S. effort to rally an “alliance of democracies” to counter threats from China.
The Biden team’s emphasis on coordination between allies in the Indo-Pacific has drawn opposition from both Russia and China, an autocratic pair that have a common goal of degrading U.S. and Western European power around the world. China has asserted sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, which has long functioned as one of the most important international shipping lanes for global commerce, in defiance of an international tribunal that rejected their claim. Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s deployment of military assets to artificial islands in the South China Sea has enhanced the People’s Liberation Army’s ability to project power in the area, to the alarm of the U.S. and Australia.
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