The People’s Liberation Army is practicing a total blockade of Taiwan. Chinese pressure on Russia to end the war in Ukraine remains non-existent. And the tentative European Union-U.S. effort to defend the democratic rule of law has been greatly undermined.

Thus, in China, we learned the true definition of French President Emmanuel Macron‘s foreign policy doctrine of “strategic autonomy.” It’s the doctrine of France first, even if all her allies suffer heavily for it.