Macron has more than ruffled the feathers of the Neocons in the USA,
with his calling for Europe not to act like vassal states and follow the
USA into a conflict with China over Taiwan, saying Europe should not
engage in a crisis that is not of their own making.
Not only has
that stance caused hysteria in the USA, it also clearly antagonised the
USA's stooges in Europe as well, particulaly the Germans. China already
noticed the apparent split in Europe's top echelons of power. When
Macron wanted to follow Olaf Scholz to China months ago, he was flatly
brushed aside and denied by Olaf Scholz. That was a big slap on Macron's
ego and he is clearly paying Olaf Scholz back in his own coin, which
the Chinese are helping him by giving him an emperors welcome which
Scholz earlier visit could not match. The unity and solidarity
propaganda touted in the EU is a mirage that Russia and China could
clearly see by putting two and two together.
Now, as I said
earlier, Macron did more than ruffled the feathers of the Neocons in the
USA. Macron, in the eyes of analyst and onlookers, is actually joining
the de-dollarisation movement by closing many deals in Yuan with China
and bypassing the US$. Among the big deals made was China buying more
Airbus helicopters and planes and the expansion of Airbus plant in China
with more investments. That is a significant development, indicating
that even the Europeans are not happy with the US$ hegemony.
Of
course the Industrial Giants of EU, ie Germany and France, would not be
happy with the USA cannibalising Europe's industrial base by offering
subsidies to European manufacturers to shift to the USA. Moreover,
selling expensive energy to Europe caused much of the problems now
besetting Europe, when Europe could instead still be enjoying cheap
Russian energy if not for towing the USA line. Blowing up the Nord
Stream pipelines was the added pain inflicted on the Europeans.
Anonymous