How should India view Macron’s visit? - The Hindu

There’s been a sudden uptick in visitors to Beijing this week. And made the point they don’t want to “decouple” from China, only “derisk” supply chains -They asked President Xi Jinping to be more proactive in helping debt-ridden countries in Africa and Sri Lanka to manage their debt, and for more Chinese commitments towards Climate change Where they really appear to have differed was on their words on Taiwan- while Von Der Leyen and Baerbock warned that any Chinese action against Taiwan would be disastrous for the world, Macron appeared to step out of line- saying Europe should stay out of the fight between what he called US agenda and Chinese overreaction, and stressed on the need for strategic autonomy and independent foreign policy. We’ve been looking at some of the statements of the French president, what do you think, according to what really was the reason for his very strong statement on Taiwan, in particular, while he was in China, where he said, France is not a vassal state of the US almost suggesting that France would not perhaps look at Taiwan in the same way as the United States was? Now, let’s move forward 18 months, if Donald Trump is elected in the US or if Ron DeSantis, another Republican, gets elected, maybe President Macron’s words might sound a little bit prophetic because Europe will wake up again as during the first mandate of Donald Trump as wanting to protect itself from any potential damage coming from Washington, remember that Donald Trump wanted to pull the US out of NATO. However, Macron’s words indicate less pressure on China and India to reduce ties with Russia- during Russian Dy PM Manturov’s visit to Delhi this week, India and Russia vowed to increase trade, that has already nearly tripled since last year, and to seek new ways to pay in national currencies 4.