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Macron: France's Position On Taiwan Hasn't Changed

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Reuters carrying comments from French President Emmanuel Macron as his state visit to the Netherlands continues to be over shadowed by comments this week suggesting that France must not follow US or Chinese policy regarding Taiwan.

  • Macron: "We are for the status-quo on the Taiwan issue, [France's] position hasn't changed... We have to avoid escalation in Indo-Pacific region."
  • Macron also stated, "I won't comment on recent Trump remarks," referring to inflammatory remarks made by the former US president in an interview with Fox News' Tucker Carlson yesterday.
  • DW reports that Macron's comments have caused particular concern in Tokyo writing that, "Macron's conciliatory tone could serve to weaken European unity on China policy and send the wrong signal to Asian allies directly affected by Chinese aggression."
  • Hiromi Murakami, a political science expert, told DW: "...the Japanese government will have been badly shaken by these comments [which] appear to be out of step with the consensus that Japan has been trying to build and would appear to be quite a shift from France's previous stance on the issue."

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