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        About a week or so ago, Macron was on a three day state visit in China.  During his return trip, he gave an interview to a business-centric French publication—'Les Echos'— which ended up triggering a diplomatic row on both sides of the Atlantic, but mostly in Europe.  Some of the controversial remarks were as follows :

- Does a potential military conflict  over the issue of Taiwan concern Europe?

-Europe shouldn't be a follower of the United States

- He also questioned  the extra territoriality of the United States dollar .

Needless to say, starting in Europe,—particularly in Germany —, the reactions were swift, with some newspapers calling into question his mental acuity and what not.Personally, to say I was incensed is an understatement.

Look, I'm no flag waving, America can do no wrong zealot. I'm an American citizen who wasn't actually born in this country . I wish I could say I'm surprised by the predictable, yet , hypocritical attitude of the French.  Since the end of world War 2 , France has always had an inexplicable mixture of envy, jealousy,and weird resentment towards the U.S. Emmanuel Macron's latest statements should be taken as a 'the cat's out the bag'moment by U.S foreign policy makers who should act accordingly moving forward.[/quote]

I don’t understand why you would expect France to follow the US. As an Australian, I understand that our best national interests are served by a close relationship with the US. However, I’m not naive enough to expect our national interests to always coincide and have grave misgivings over how willingly Australia followed the US into Iraq and was happy to present false intelligence to an ally. [/quote]

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