President Biden is constructing and deepening new alliances to strengthen the U.S. position in its showdown with China, but he risks alienating longstanding allies in the process.
Biden heralded a new agreement to help Australia acquire nuclear submarines as part of a trilateral security pact with the U.K. and the U.S. as an "historic step" to update U.S. alliances to face new challenges. The message from French foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, was quite different.Subscribe for free
Le Drian called it "a stab in the back," and the French defense minister said she didn't learn the news until Biden announced it last night —strategy for the Indo-Pacific"I suppose that a deal like that wasn’t cooked the day before yesterday," the EU's top diplomat Josep Borrell said at a press conference to unveil the strategy, which was consumed by questions about AUKUS. "Despite that, we weren’t informed.
European officials, meanwhile, may have "overestimated the Trump factor in some of the trans-Atlantic differences," Haddad says. "You have deeper trends in terms of shifting priorities, and the submarine decision is a very spectacular example of this."when Biden took office, a European diplomat told Axios this week.
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