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An earlier suggestion by the French president that the security of Taiwan was not Europe’s immediate concern had drawn sharp criticism from some Western allies and commentators.

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French president reaffirms Sunday’s call for Europe to act more independently from US over China and Taiwan
Emmanuel Macron has stood by his , repeating that being a US ally did not mean being a “vassal”.
At the end of a state visit to the Netherlands during which he has also at home, Macron appeared to reaffirm the remarks he made in an interview on Sunday, in which he called for Europe to act more independently from the US over .

The former British prime minister Liz Truss has criticised the visit by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, and the European Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen, to Beijing, describing it as a mistake.

Speaking during a Q&A after delivering the 2023 Margaret Thatcher freedom lecture on Wednesday, Truss said: 'The idea that we can treat China as just another global player is wrong. It is a totalitarian regime and we need to adapt our policies accordingly.' Truss also called on western countries to take a stronger line on Taiwan

French president also criticised for saying Europe should act independently from US over Taiwan
Emmanuel Macron was heckled and jeered on a state visit to the Netherlands as he faced pressure over both raising the French pension age and his warning that Europe must not become “vassals” in a US conflict with China over Taiwan.
The French president was due to give a speech on European strategic autonomy when two demonstrators against his pension changes were arrested as they ran towards him on his arrival at the University of Amsterdam.

The 2010s were a wasted decade for economies and the environment. The 20s have all the makings of a second
Remember the roaring 20s? Even as Covid gripped the world, optimists piped up that , bolstering incomes and kickstarting an almighty boom. Harking back to the Spanish flu pandemic of a century earlier, they saw a decade of glorious growth ahead.
Well, they were wrong. Ahead lies not roaring but snoring; no boom, but ever-deepening gloom. That is the message from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, which are holding their spring meetings in Washington DC this week. In its economic outlook, the IMF not only outlines what a mediocre few years lie ahead, it is also worried that . As for the World Bank, it has published a 564-page book whose chief preoccupation is in its title: . It warns of a “lost decade in the making”, and projects that the meagre growth of the 2010s will “extend into the remainder of the current decade”. We may be less than a third of the way into the 20s but, as far as the serried ranks of the top economists in Washington are concerned, it is already game over.

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