[NTD News June 27, 2021, Beijing time]US Secretary of State Blincoln visited France on the 25th and held talks with French President Macron. He said that the United States and France agree on major issues. If the CCP challenges a democratic, free, and open world order, “we will come forward.”
Brinken is on a seven-day visit to France, Germany, Italy and the Vatican. On June 25th, Brinken met with Macron in France and talked about “transatlantic cooperation in response to China’s coercive economic practices and attempts to disrupt the rules-based international order.”
He told the media that the United States and France have a firm consensus on the issue of preventing “China (the Communist Party) leading the world order”, and criticized the CCP order as “extremely narrow in nature.”
Brinken said, “I want to be clear about this. Our goal is not to contain China (the Communist Party), or to establish a policy against China (the Communist Party). It is to support a rule based on France and the United States established after World War II. Standard free and open system, these rules and standards are very useful to us.”
He emphasized that once the current democratic, free, and open world order is challenged by the CCP, “we will step forward.”
Regarding how the United States can counter the CCP’s economic and security ambitions of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, Brinken reiterated that it will provide middle- and low-income countries with a positive and stable plan. This plan will not have additional conditions like the CCP’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative, nor will it use the CCP vaccine as a coercion tool.
Earlier, when US President Biden visited Europe, the G7 Group planned to establish a global infrastructure plan to help developing countries to compete with the CCP’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative.
Brinken lived in France for 10 years as a teenager, and this was his first visit to France after serving as Secretary of State. Before meeting Macron, he held talks with French Foreign Minister Le Drian.
Le Drian said in his speech that the fact that the Franco-U.S. alliance is stronger will ultimately mean stronger in the Indo-Pacific region. “The region must remain free and open, and this requires a balanced approach to China.”
Before Brinken’s visit to France, he held talks with Chancellor Merkel in Germany. He said that the United States “cannot find a better friend than Germany and France” in the world.
He emphasized that the three countries of the United States, France, and Germany worked together to define basic concepts such as democracy, freedom, equality, human rights, freedom of speech, and alliance relations.
The purpose of Brinken’s trip to Europe is clear, aiming to further implement Biden’s plan to unite his allies against communism. Biden hopes that facing the CCP, the West will form a strong united front.
(Reporter Luo Tingting Comprehensive Report / Chief Editor: Wang Anping)
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