With the worrying panorama presented by the relationship between China and the US, which began to worsen in recent months, Emmanuel MacronPrime Minister of Franceasked the European countries own strategy so as not to become “vassals”.
“As the conflict between this duopoly accelerates, we will have neither the time nor the means to finance our strategic autonomy and we will become vassals“, he began by expressing in an interview with the newspaper Les Echoes, on the return from his visit to China.
Along these lines, he then added that “the worst that can happen is that Europeans end up believing that they have to become followers and adapt to the American rhythm and to China’s exaggerated reactions.”
With the purpose of establishing a favorable scenario for the European economic system, he inquired “Why should we go at the pace chosen by others?”, and maintained that “at some point, we must ask ourselves what our own interests are“.
The objective of the plan, as explained by Macron, is to build a base so as not to depend on the US and China on key issues such as energy. “strategic autonomy it must be the fight of Europe. We do not want to depend on others on critical issues, because the day we run out of room for maneuver on issues like energy, defense, social media or artificial intelligence, the day we run out of the necessary structure on those issues, we’ll stay out of the rhythm of history“, he warned.
