Following biden's personal phone call to France before, US Secretary of State Blinken and US Special Envoy for Climate Issues Kerry recently visited France together, and the United States has so intensive diplomacy with France, and the whole world knows what happened, of course, the Australian nuclear submarine incident. In the final analysis, the United States' move is to "laugh and have a vendetta" with France and let France "understand" what the United States has done. Kerry publicly defended the U.S. government's actions in France, telling the French media that "the submarine incident was not a betrayal, but a lack of communication." However, in reality, whether the United States is a betrayal of the United States, britain, and Australia's nuclear submarine incident, the whole world probably knows it, and France may not be clear.
France has contributed to the new Asia-Pacific strategy of the United States, as exemplified by France's high-profile dispatch of Northwest Wind-class amphibious assault ships and nuclear-powered submarines, trespassing in the South China Sea, and openly declaring that it will cross the Qiongzhou Strait, which is completely part of China's territorial waters, before arriving in the South China Sea. France's move is actually at the risk of provoking China, pandering to the United States, and helping the United States.
However, the nuclear submarine incident between the United States, Britain, and Australia, the United States, obviously robbed the French of their "business." This business, with a total value, is more than $60 billion. Whether this is a betrayal or not, the French, are afraid of the most clear.
At the same time, US Secretary of State Blinken's visit to France actually has the purpose of continuing to betray France and rob the French of "business".
According to media releases, Blinken's visit to France had two main arrangements, one of which was to attend the ministerial council meeting of the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development held from October 5 to 6. Previously, the U.S. government and the European Union have also held similar meetings, and it is also before and after this meeting that the U.S. Secretary of Commerce announced that China is preventing companies from buying more Boeing civil airliners, and the U.S. Secretary of Commerce even hopes that the United States and Europe will cooperate to force China to purchase more Boeing civil airliners. Judging from this, the talks and ideas between Blinken and the French side on so-called economic cooperation and joint pressure on China are at least one of the goals.
However, as we all know, the world's civil airliner procurement is basically monopolized by the United States Boeing and European Airbus, and China refuses to purchase more Boeing aircraft, which naturally benefits European Airbus. France, on the other hand, is one of the most important "owners" of European Airbus.
That is to say, after robbing Australia of more than $60 billion in large orders, the United States is not enough, and it still wants to grab China's civil airliner orders and france to help. Americans, really "dream of marrying a daughter-in-law - thinking of good things."
On this basis, it is not difficult to judge that the recent intensive diplomatic actions of the United States against France are actually "playing tricks." The whole world knows very well that it is impossible for the United States to give anything to France today, and what France wants most and what the United States can give, the United States will never give. On the contrary, the United States wants France's help more, such as allowing France to contribute more to the Us Asia-Pacific strategy, and more "cooperation" with the United States to coerce China in the economic field. Are these ideas of the United States, the French, really unclear? Not necessarily, but France, the means to counteract, are few and far between, and even France's consciousness of resisting the United States is almost gone.
Previously, some experts and scholars speculated that France would retaliate against the United States by withdrawing from NATO like de Gaulle at that time, but judging from the development of the incident, France did not do so. In fact, France has done almost nothing about the betrayal of the United States. Immediately after Biden's phone call, France "gleefully" announced that its ambassador to the United States would soon return to the United States, as exemplified.
With regard to the United States and France, a big reality at present is that the French have long forgotten the "independent French idea" created by de Gaulle, and even if it is not as flattering as Britain, it is getting closer and closer.
Regarding France's positioning in the post-war international arena, de Gaulle pointed out the direction for the French. De Gaulle believed at the time that due to the limitations of national strength, France could no longer do whatever it wanted in the world as before, and if it wanted to continue to enjoy the so-called great power privileges, France must find partners, and the United States was of course the first choice. However, de Gaulle also believed that while cooperating with the United States, France could not completely rely on the United States, and must maintain its independence, and only in this way could France be called an independent power. De Gaulle's line of thinking on Franco-American relations is clear – a "sit-on-par" partner, not a dependency.
In order to counter the United States, de Gaulle directly withdrew from NATO and drove away all the US troops stationed in France, which came from this idea, objectively speaking, this idea is also the most appropriate and correct for France. However, today's France has basically abandoned this theory.
In this way, France has become closer and closer to Britain in front of the United States, and modern France, which has lost its sense of resistance and de Gaulle's idea of "independent France", will be even more difficult.
Being humiliated, being played without knowing it, not knowing it yet, not knowing anger is typical of numbness, standard slave thinking. It is also regrettable that the former "Western powers" and independent France have mixed up to such a point. Seeing the appearance of France today, de Gaulle's "coffin lid" is afraid that it is difficult to cover.
But this is today's France, the France that is getting closer and closer to becoming a "slave" to the United States. The original pride and backbone of the French people probably only exist in the dreams of the French people now.