{"id":54224,"date":"2023-04-11T00:04:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash"},"modified":"2023-04-11T00:04:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T15:04:41","slug":"macron-sparks-anger-by-saying-europe-should-not-be-vassal-in-us-china-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54224","title":{"rendered":"Macron sparks anger by saying Europe should not be \u2018vassal\u2019 in US-China clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm on both sides of Atlantic as French president warns against being drawn into any Taiwan conflict<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron has flown into a storm of criticism after he said Europe should not become a \u201cvassal\u201d and must avoid being drawn into any conflict between the US and China over Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>The French president made the remarks in an interview on his plane after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/06\/macron-urges-xi-china-russia-ukraine-war\">a three-day state visit to China<\/a>, where he received a red carpet welcome by China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping \u2013 a show of pageantry that alarmed some European China watchers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarm on both sides of Atlantic as French president warns against being drawn into any Taiwan conflictEmmanuel Macron has flown into a storm of criticism after he said Europe should not become a \u201cvassal\u201d and must avoid being drawn into any conflict bet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1251,"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":[41,50,1244,221,530,526,74,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-emmanuel-macron","category-europe","category-european-union","category-france","category-taiwan","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224","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\/1251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54225,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54224\/revisions\/54225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}