{"id":37018,"date":"2021-09-19T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/we-thought-we-were-mates-french-ambassador-laments-subterfuge-en-route-to-sydney-airport"},"modified":"2021-09-19T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T00:28:30","slug":"we-thought-we-were-mates-french-ambassador-laments-subterfuge-en-route-to-sydney-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37018","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We thought we were mates\u2019: French ambassador laments subterfuge en route to Sydney airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Thebault was angry about Aukus as he left Australia on Saturday night, saying: \u2018It\u2019s like in a couple, you know, when you commit \u2026 you don\u2019t run away\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/18\/australia-regrets-frances-recall-of-ambassador-as-aukus-fallout-predicted-to-last-years\">Australia \u2018regrets\u2019 France\u2019s recall of ambassador<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2018\/may\/15\/the-guardian-app?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our free news app<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/guardian-australia-morning-mail\/2014\/jun\/24\/-sp-guardian-australias-morning-mail-subscribe-by-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">get our morning email briefing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The French ambassador to Australia was in a car heading to Sydney airport for an urgent flight back home when he revealed he was \u201csad like any decent person would be\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre Thebault left Australia on Saturday night after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/sep\/16\/australia-nuclear-submarine-deal-contract-france-scrapped-defence-pact-us-uk\">Australia\u2019s $90bn submarine deal<\/a> with France was scrapped late last week, causing an unexpected rupture in the relationship between two friendly countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/19\/we-thought-we-were-mates-french-ambassador-laments-subterfuge-en-route-to-sydney-airport\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Pierre Thebault was angry about Aukus as he left Australia on Saturday night, saying: \u2018It\u2019s like in a couple, you know, when you commit \u2026 you don\u2019t run away\u2019Australia \u2018regrets\u2019 France\u2019s recall of ambassadorGet our free news app; get our morning em&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2085,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2346,43,645,324,1244,526,386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-aukus","category-australia-news","category-australian-foreign-policy","category-australian-politics","category-emmanuel-macron","category-france","category-scott-morrison"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2085"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37018\/revisions\/37019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}