about and warned for quite some time i don t know the french or germans are going to be with us in a china fight. macron has clearly put that on now on display for the entire world to see and so the you state must ask ourselves who are our friends, who are our allies in the region that would be in potential fight. and those are the relationships that we need to invest in. so i don t know if macron was doing this because he is still angry when united states got the submarine deal and french didn t, alliance of the australian, united kingdom, he could be sore over that. and the biden administration, i hear it from leaders in latin america, leaders in the middle east, every time i speak at a conference, leaders from other parts of the world tell me the biden administration is ignoring them in favor of only focusing or singularly focusing on europe and what s going on with ukraine. and while that s incredibly
plan for ukraine but the closeness of this relationship has everyone worried. china s support for russia in its war on ukraine, from a european perspective, is significant. if china really wants to be a mediator in this conflict, it has to start pressuring russia to a different approach. no obvious sign of that back in beijing. president xi speaking instead of china and france as promoters of a multipolar world, hoping to see in emmanuel macron a counterweight to what china views as america s overbearing influence. china doesn t like the latest security pact between the us, britain and australia. the submarine deal at the heart of it caused fury in france, which thought it had its own contract with australia. china and europe are both anxious to improve ties. the eu commission chief ursula von der leyen is also in beijing. but a war halfway across the world hangs heavy over these talks.
Russia and China have expressed concern over the plan to build nuclear submarines and urged AUKUS members to strictly adhere to their obligations on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Experts believe Xi Jinping's historic Russian visit will boost China's global stature, and the US and its Western allies are keeping a close eye on it.