Posted on 06/16/2020 7:48:08 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
French President Emmanuel Macron said Europe as a whole needs to be less economically beholden to the U.S. and China moving forward.
"This ordeal has exposed flaws and fragilities: our dependence to other continents to get our hands on some goods," Macron said over the weekend in a national TV address, referring to the coronavirus pandemic. "I want us to draw all the lessons from what we have learned."
France, the second largest economy in the European Union behind Germany, is beginning to reopen after being shuttered for more than two months because of the pandemic.
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The president noted that much of Europe relies heavily on China for important goods such as car parts, smart phones and pharmaceuticals. Those supply chains were decimated when the pandemic began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and as countries around the globe competed for the same limited medical products.
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The inherent flaws of globalism are becoming obvious even to Macron.
In a way GLOBALISM is turning your self interest over to someone that has their self interest first. In any conflict you will be the loser.
Good for him. Europe needs to take care of itself. The Cold War with the Soviet Union is long over.
I’m an American and I want that too
Other than producing wine, chicken and butter...good luck.
France gets 80% of its mustard seed from the USA. In certain cases “less reliance” is an impossibility.
Yeah...like turning education over to Marxist led idiots
About time!
Good, PAY FOR YOUR OWN MILITARY PROTECTION!!! We have covered the bill for protecting Europe for 70 freaking years. Time for them to either pay up to us or pay for building their own defense against the Soviet horde.
Smacks of nationalism. Take that, Globalists!
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