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The French president seemed to abandon the island to its fate by distancing itself from the Americans. A controversy that he did not dispel in the Netherlands on Tuesday.
By Emmanuel Berretta
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“IThere is no desire to let Taiwan be invaded by China. On the contrary, there is the desire to reduce tensions. “Stéphane Séjourné, one of President Macron’s relatives, was dispatched on Tuesday April 11 in the morning on France Inter, to try to put out the fire started by the words of Emmanuel Macron in an interview with Echoes, which caused a stir in Brussels, Berlin and Washington.
The Head of State, who traveled to the Netherlands on Tuesday to deliver a speech on European sovereignty in front of students, did not return to the subject. The terms used in The echoes about Taiwan have sown doubt: has France decided to abandon Taiwan to Chinese influence, as if it were a barter to save Ukraine?
“The Chinese…