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Well its escalating.. France has recalled its ambassadors. No more Ferrero Rocher for President Biden. It will be interesting to see how this pans out, but if any country is acting like a global power when it isn't, its not Britain in this. France has a significant aerospace and defence industrial capability, that just got downsized.

Well, I didn't see that coming, how very grown up of them. Brexit Britain being a success is obviously something they can't cope with. Expect an upsurge in the number of dinghies coming across the channel, and another 10 years of talking about an EU army.

Utter to55ers.
 
Yes, you couldn’t make up the stupidity of brexers thinking CPTPP is of any great benefit to the UK.

but hey, I know you are desperate to join a trade bloc where we will be a rule taker


You really do swallow this govts Brexit propaganda

We lead where others follow. Macron must've been up all night.

EU rolls out new China strategy hours after US, UK and Australia present pact (msn.com)

The European Union has unveiled a new strategy for boosting economic, political and defence ties in the Indo-Pacific, just hours after the United States, Britain and Australia announced a new security alliance likely to reshape their relations with the region.

The EU believes the region, which stretches from India and China through Japan to Southeast Asia and eastwards past New Zealand to the Pacific, is growing in importance given its rising population and political weight, its role in global trade and security and its impact on climate change.

It says the aim of the strategy is to strengthen and expand economic relations while reinforcing the respect of international trade rules, help partners fight and adapt to climate change and biodiversity loss, and boost co-operation on healthcare so least-developed countries can better prepare for crises like the coronavirus pandemic.

The plan, which comes amid rising US/China tensions, is also a bid to improve maritime security and ensure safe passage through sea lanes.

The EU hopes it will result in more naval deployments to the region by European countries. Transport and energy ties would also be boosted.

The bloc is already the top investor, leading development co-operation partner and one of the biggest traders in the Indo-Pacific.

But it wants to step up its involvement given the rise in regional geopolitical tensions which are hurting trade and supply chains and undermining security.

 
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Looks like a return to old fashioned imperialism.
American gunboats in the South China sea to enforce the Freedom of Navigation act, an act which ironically the Americans refuse to sign up to.
 
oh dear seems the EU are miles ahead already
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The EU hopes it will result in more naval deployments to the region by European countries.
Is the EUs aim to start a shooting war with China.
 
Yep french / macron are not happy
:LOL:


mind you he does have an election next year ;)

no telling what the French will do next :idea:

could we’ll see thousands of migrants crossing the channel :idea:

tunnel being shut down :idea:

sabotage :idea:

The scoundrels are unpredictable
 
:eek:They will probably start dumping there sewage in British waters

cut off electric to jersey

blimey start making ELM Le blanc and chaffy turd and dumping them on the UK market :eek::eek:

jeez us :eek:

any one thinking about buying a new Renault
Citroen
Peugeot

best advised to think again ;)
 
On the news

the french government said they were lied to by the USA and Australia and treated with contempt

as for the UK role basically said our role was typical as we are an opportunist country and our role was typical :ROFLMAO:

and very predictable :ROFLMAO:

blimey Biden only president for a few months and now he has basically up set the french and caused a diplomatic spat

blimey Biden has the nuclear launch codes a lunatic in the White House

bring back trump
 
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Foreign minister of France

a major breach of trust between allies and an extremely serious situation he said

France has been a close Allie of the USA for over 240 years

Biden how long has this fool been president ??
 
Oh dear, Brussels! UK's new deal with US and Australia is 'disaster' for EU - expert (msn.com)

Oh dear, Brussels! UK's new deal with US and Australia is 'disaster' for EU - expert
Chloe Davies 2 hrs ago
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The commentary refers to the Aukus alliance between the US, the UK and Australia, under which the US and UK will share sensitive technology with Australia to let it develop its first nuclear-powered submarines. Wolfgang Münchau branded the pact as an "implicit geopolitical disaster for the EU" in an op-ed for The Spectator, after France was snubbed from the trilateral pact in its contract stages.

The expert claims that "the alliance is the culmination of multiple European failures", and notes the EU's political misjudgements of US president Joe Biden's China strategy among them.

He implies that the pact is a retaliation from the UK after being treated as a "strategic adversary", saying that following the treatment "don't be surprised when the UK exploits the areas where it enjoys a competitive advantage."

Within the piece Wolfgang claims that the EU "has outmanoeuvred itself through lazy group-think" and also brands the union as "monolithic" for it's slow-changing progress.

One example he provides is that while developments are made by the Biden administration to move beyond Nato towards a multipolar defence strategy, Mr Münchau claims the EU falls behind as German political parties still remain discussing the pros and cons of Nato.

He claims that while "Nato remains a pillar" for defence strategies, "it is now supplemented by informal Indo-Pacific alliances", including the US, Japan, India and Australia.

Further domain is acquired due to an informal intelligence pact compromising the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand dubbed 'Five Eyes', which forms part of the "variable geometry of the new international order" according to the expert, whereas the EU is on the outskirts of the scheme.

After branding the EU as "monolithic", Mr Münchau states that the EU is more limited in its progress as it is "stuck with its 27 veto-wielding members in the foreign affairs council".

Other European states can't compete with the "different order" of the UK's investment in modern defence technologies, which make them a natural alliance for the US for this specific scheme aimed at containing the influence of China.
 
Wolfgang Münchau is a journalist who wrote an opinion piece for a far-right magazine.

What do you think he's an "expert" in?
 
Wolfgang Münchau is a journalist who wrote an opinion piece for a far-right magazine.

What do you think he's an "expert" in?

How would you compare your expertise, on this subject compared to his.
 
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