One of Prime Minister Fumio Kishida¡¯s top goals for next month¡¯s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima is to create a united front on issues like China and Ukraine. But finding a unified approach to dealing with Beijing¡¯s assertiveness might have just become harder.
Kishida now faces a greater challenge following stunning remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron that the European Union should follow neither the U.S. nor China¡¯s position on Taiwan ¡ª a stance that experts say may weaken U.S.-led deterrence efforts against Beijing.
In his remarks published Sunday in Politico and the French newspaper Les Echos, Macron said that ¡°the great risk¡± Europe is currently facing is that it ¡°gets caught up in crises that are not ours,¡± preventing it from building what he called ¡°strategic autonomy.¡±
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