After attending the Munich Security Conference, the Chinese Foreign Minister visited France and co-chaired the 25th Sino-French Strategic Dialogue with France's first foreign affairs adviser, Jean-Bonne. During this period, France's Macron met with our foreign minister and reaffirmed France's commitment to the one-China policy, which is clear and clear. In addition, PropNex also once again emphasized the position of the French side, saying that it will continue to pursue the one-China policy.
We all know that the Taiwan issue is China's core interest, and the one-China principle is the basis for the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and France, so it is of great symbolic significance for Chinese mainland to be able to obtain repeated commitments from France and its top leaders. But the question is, can France's promises be kept? To answer this question, let's start with a piece of news.
Not long ago, the Taiwan region reached an agreement with the "International Defense Committee," a state-owned defense export organization of France, to be worth about 5500 million yuan in arms sales contracts. According to the contents of the contract, the French "International Defense Committee" will next purchase in France "ship-based warship-carrying zero accessories" for the "Kangding"-class frigates of the Taiwan Navy.
Macron's France** is very clear that the Taiwan issue is a sensitive issue for China and is an internal affair of China, and Chinese mainland will never allow other countries to arm Taiwan. Under such circumstances, Macron emphasized the pursuit of the one-China principle on the one hand, and on the other hand, secretly did business with the Taiwan region, or an arms sales business, which is inevitably not very friendly and at the same time damages the friendship between China and France.
Based on this, let's go back to the question we just asked, can France's promise be kept? I don't know what everyone thinks, but I personally think that Macron and his *** promises are probably going to be discounted. France's practice tells us a straightforward reality: the international community does not have so much affection to talk about, and it is about interests rather than affection between countries.
Because of this, France can make friends with China on the one hand, and sell to Taiwan on the other hand to help it upgrade, and the reason for this is simple, there is money to be made. As for the sake of Chinese mainland, it is impossible not to earn money from Taiwan, don't take sentiment too seriously.
Then again, this also means that China and France continue to deepen their strategic cooperative relationship, but as long as the United States can give France more benefits, France may not mind turning to the United States. The so-called realization of European independence and the point of view that France should be the boss of Europe, let's just listen to it, has Macron achieved it after shouting for so many years? It's still the same old way.
You must know that the country is made up of people, and it is also controlled by people, and people have weaknesses, and Macron is no exception, and there are forces behind him to come to power. As ordinary people, no one knows what the forces behind Macron think, do they really want to completely turn their faces with the United States and completely break away from American influence? I'm afraid not necessarily, because the interests are too deeply involved, and it is difficult to break them all.
In this case, it is okay to deepen Sino-French strategic cooperation, but it is not necessary to expect Macron to lead France to turn the other cheek with the United States, and to hope that Macron can wholeheartedly side with China, because it is unrealistic. After all, if we really want to talk about deep friendship, France and the United States have formed an alliance more than 200 years ago, and if it were not for France's strong support for the United States, I am afraid that American independence is still far away.