{"id":2453,"date":"2021-10-14T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/?p=2453"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:20:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:20:41","slug":"europes-strategic-priority-is-to-assert-independence-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/2021\/10\/14\/europes-strategic-priority-is-to-assert-independence-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s strategic priority is to assert independence from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Europe must assert independence from the U.S. following France\u2019s outrage over a submarine deal between the U.S. and Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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French President Emmanuel Macron <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mr. LeMaire made it crystal clear that the disagreement over submarines is symptomatic of deeper differences in world view that have emerged not only in France but in the European Union as a consequence of China\u2019s rise. The NYT<\/a> article states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘The United States wants to confront China. The European Union wants to engage China,’ Mr. Le Maire, a close ally of President Emmanuel Macron of France, said in a wide-ranging interview ahead of the (IMF) meetings. This was natural, he added, because the United States is the world\u2019s leading power and does not \u2018want China to become in a few years or in a few decades the first superpower in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Europe\u2019s strategic priority, by contrast, is independence, \u2018which means to be able to build more capacities on defense, to defend its own view on the fight against climate change, to defend its own economic interest, to have access to key technologies and not be too dependent on American technologies,\u2019 he said.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“<\/strong><\/em>The key question now for the European Union, he said, is to become\u00a0\u2018independent from the United States, able to defend its own interests, whether economic or strategic interests.\u2019”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, seasoned diplomat that Mr. LeMaire is, he provided some cold comfort to the naughty US administration, saying, the United States remains “our closest partner” in terms of values, economic model, respect for the rule of law, and embrace of freedom. But with China, he said, “we do not share the same values or economic model.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“One of the biggest lingering points of contention is over metal tariffs that former President Donald J. Trump imposed globally in 2018. Officials face difficult negotiations<\/a> in coming weeks. Europeans plan to impose retaliatory tariffs on a range of US products as of Dec. 1, unless Mr. Biden pulls back a 25 percent duty on European steel and a 10 percent tax on aluminum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u2018If we want to improve the bilateral economic relationship between the continents, the first step must be for the United States to lift the sanctions in the steel and aluminum case<\/strong>,\u2019 Mr. Le Maire said. \u2018We are fed up with the trade wars,\u2019<\/em><\/strong> he added.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that Europe must assert independence from the U.S. following France\u2019s outrage over a submarine deal between the U.S. and Australia. Mr. LeMaire made it crystal clear that the disagreement over submarines is symptomatic of deeper differences in world view that have emerged not only in France but in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[899,2589,2587,2588,2586],"class_list":{"0":"post-2453","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-china","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-independence","11":"tag-president-macron","12":"tag-us-dollar"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/politicalbourbon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}