{"id":54287,"date":"2023-04-13T04:36:38","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/macron-stands-by-remark-us-allies-not-vassals-china"},"modified":"2023-04-13T04:36:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:36:38","slug":"macron-stands-by-divisive-remark-about-us-allies-not-being-vassals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54287","title":{"rendered":"Macron stands by divisive remark about US allies \u2018not being vassals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French president reaffirms Sunday\u2019s call for Europe to act more independently from US over China and Taiwan<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Macron has stood by his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/10\/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash\">controversial comments on Taiwan<\/a>, repeating that being a US ally did not mean being a \u201cvassal\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of a state visit to the Netherlands during which he has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/emmanuel-macron-heckled-at-during-state-visit-to-netherlands\">faced protests over pension reforms<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/12\/macron-stands-by-remark-us-allies-not-vassals-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French president reaffirms Sunday\u2019s call for Europe to act more independently from US over China and TaiwanEmmanuel Macron has stood by his controversial comments on Taiwan, repeating that being a US ally did not mean being a \u201cvassal\u201d.At the end of a s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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-54287","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\/54287","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54287\/revisions\/54288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}