After the China meet, Rubio responds to Macron’s’s request to distance itself from the US.

Sen. Marco Rubio( R-Fla. ) has criticized French President Emanuel Macron for appearing to support Europe’s’s need to distance itself from the US due to a potential Chinese military attack on Taiwan.

Rubio questioned whether Macron” speaks for all of Europe” when he said the EU shouldn’t choose sides between the United States and China over Taiwan in a roughly two-minute video posted on Twitter on Sunday. He also argued that Western countries do” break away” from the US and stay out of crises” that are not ours” in order to develop Europe’s’s idea of” corporate independence.”

After meeting with Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) leader Xi Jinping, Macron returned from a three-day state visit to China and told Politico in an interview that the EU needed to lessen its reliance on the United States and avoid turning into” America’s’s followers.”

In response to Macron’s’s interview, Rubio claimed that for decades, Europe — particularly France — has heavily relied on the United States for its defense.

” This is a good time for us to demand Europe: Does Macron talk for all of Europe? Is he now the continent’s’s leader?” ” There are some factors that have to increase ,” Rubio enquired, noting if that were the case.

He continued,” In fact, when Macron attempted to act as a global power and sent troops to North Africa to overcome extremists, he couldn’t possibly send his own army it.” He couldn’t even get his own army that, so we had to fly them there and back.

The Florida senator continued,” So it will save us a lot of money if they break off on their own and follow Macron’s’s head.”

Rubio also said that Americans have” spent a lot of our tax money” on the Western conflict in his speech to the US military intervention to Ukraine. He also emphasized that he backs the trigger because, in his opinion,” becoming allies to our friends is in the regional interests of the United States.”

However, if Macron represents all of Europe and their current stance is that they won’t choose sides between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, then perhaps neither should we be choosing legs. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that you guys will take care of Ukraine and Europe while we concentrate on Taiwan and the dangers China poses.

Therefore, we must ascertain whether Macron represents Macron or represents Europe. He continued. China is pretty excited about what he said, so we need to respond to that as soon as possible.

‘Macronizing’

Numerous many well-known individuals, including the senior policy advisor of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the U. S. Helsinki Commission, swiftly criticized Macron’s’s remarks on Taiwan.

Paul Massaro claimed in a Twitter meme that” Macronizing” has joined” Scholzing” in the” lexicon of shame.”

The meme defined” Macronizing” as” Deliberately increasing one’s’s dependence on China while lecturing European partners about naivety and the need to strengthen the strategic autonomy of the EU.”

In the shame film lexicon,” Macroning” joins” Scholzing.” twitter.com / NDHmowBjhx

On April 9, 2023, Paul Massaro(@ apmassar3 )

However, it’s’s unlikely that every official in Europe agrees with Macron. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, who traveled with the European president, stated last week at a meeting in Beijing that the Taiwan Strait’s’s stability” is of paramount importance.”

According to von der Leyen, the danger of using force to alter the status quo is intolerable.

Politico reported that Macron seemed to agree. How may we probably warn Taiwan,” view out, if you do something right, we will be that ,” when” Europeans may resolve the issue in Ukraine”? That’s’s the way to do it, he told the outlet,” if you really want to raise tensions.”

Since meeting with the island nation’s’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, last week, U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy( R-California ), C.