French President Emmanuel Macron’s successful state visit to China in early April has stabilized and strengthened the longstanding China-France relationship. Macron also called for European “strategic autonomy” in an interview after the visit. But Washington and Brussels are in a tizzy. While Paris shows pragmatic realism, the United States and its European “vassals” border on the hysterical.
Multipolarity and echoes of General de Gaulle
World War II hero General Charles de Gaulle was president of France from 1959 to 1969 and is well known for his independent foreign policy. De Gaulle famously withdrew France from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), owing to its domination by the United States. Under him, France did not want to become a vassal of the United States and Wall Street.
He was also well known
