Macron says Europe should not follow U.S. or Chinese policy over Taiwan

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April 9 (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said in comments published on Sunday that Europe had no interest in an acceleration of the crisis over Taiwan and should pursue a strategy independent of both Washington and Beijing. Macron has just returned from a three-day state visit to China, where he received a warm welcome from President Xi Jinping. China began drills around Taiwan on Saturday in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday. China views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory and has never renounced the…

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