Bowing to Beijing, France's Macron betrays the liberal international order

French President Emmanuel Macron is in Beijing this week, assisting America’s greatest geopolitical adversary. It’s more proof that although he’s a darling of the Western media, Macron’s liberal internationalism is paper-thin.

To be fair to Macron, his efforts to further integrate the European Union, his support for a global effort to reduce carbon emissions, and his robust support for NATO (although French defense spending, as with most of Europe, remains too low) do reflect liberal internationalism in action. But that’s where the nominal positives end and where the bad begins.