It’s hard to imagine President Emanuel
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:34 am
The home of the French Ambassador to the United States, Philippe Etienne, is seen in Washington, DC, United States, on September 17, 2021. / CFP
Editor’s Note: Adriel Kasonta is a London-based foreign affairs analyst and commentator. He is the founder of AK Consultancy and former Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of Bow Group, the UK’s oldest conservative think tank. The article reflects the views of the author and not necessarily those of CGTN.
Macron’s level of anger and humiliation when he received a letter Wednesday morning from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing the decision to cancel a $ 40 billion contract concluded in 2016 for the purchase of 12 conventional submarines from the French Naval Group. in favor of nuclear-powered submarines built with American technology.
You then try to contact the US administration to ask what’s going on, and you are given an explanation just three hours before you see US President Joe Biden, along with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. , on the television. screen announcing a new US-led security alliance (known as AUKUS) between the three countries job function email database that would focus on their common Indo-Pacific strategy.
Indeed, you have every right to feel betrayed because, without a doubt, it sounds like “a stab in the back”, which should not take place “between allies”, let alone old friends. . It just makes you realize that although Donald Trump has left office, his “America First” code of conduct still seems to be in use.
“The American choice to exclude a European ally and partner such as France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are faced with unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, whether in terms of our values or in terms of respect for multilateralism. based on the rule of law, shows a lack of coherence that France can only note and regret “, one could read in a joint press release published by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-yves Le Drian and the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly.
Editor’s Note: Adriel Kasonta is a London-based foreign affairs analyst and commentator. He is the founder of AK Consultancy and former Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of Bow Group, the UK’s oldest conservative think tank. The article reflects the views of the author and not necessarily those of CGTN.
Macron’s level of anger and humiliation when he received a letter Wednesday morning from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announcing the decision to cancel a $ 40 billion contract concluded in 2016 for the purchase of 12 conventional submarines from the French Naval Group. in favor of nuclear-powered submarines built with American technology.
You then try to contact the US administration to ask what’s going on, and you are given an explanation just three hours before you see US President Joe Biden, along with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. , on the television. screen announcing a new US-led security alliance (known as AUKUS) between the three countries job function email database that would focus on their common Indo-Pacific strategy.
Indeed, you have every right to feel betrayed because, without a doubt, it sounds like “a stab in the back”, which should not take place “between allies”, let alone old friends. . It just makes you realize that although Donald Trump has left office, his “America First” code of conduct still seems to be in use.
“The American choice to exclude a European ally and partner such as France from a structuring partnership with Australia, at a time when we are faced with unprecedented challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, whether in terms of our values or in terms of respect for multilateralism. based on the rule of law, shows a lack of coherence that France can only note and regret “, one could read in a joint press release published by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-yves Le Drian and the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly.