The leader of La France Insoumise reaffirms his opinion: the visit of the American Nancy Pelosi to the island was a “provocation” towards China.
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon will not change his mind: “There is only one China”. The leader of La France Insoumise (LFI) criticized for having described as “provocation” Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island, persists and signs Saturday August 6th. In a new post published on his blog on Saturday, he says to himself “expanded” (stunned) by the “very strange reactions” and the “screams of thunder” that his statements have entailed.
“What kind of fear reigns over the debate?” he wonders. “Where did the active president of Franco-Chinese friendships Mr. Raffarin go? (former French Prime Minister) ? And the signatories of the UMP cooperation agreement (The Republicans) with the Chinese Communist Party? And Fabien Roussel (national secretary of the PCF)after his recent friendship trip to China? indignant Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The former presidential candidate, defender of a “non-alignment of Paris”points to a risk of seeing Beijing “enter into closer convergence with Russia”. Would form according to him “a more homogeneous block between the USA and Europe ‘whatever the cost’ in terms of enslavement and the risk of war”.
Within the left alliance Nupes, the national secretary of EELV Julien Bayou had denounced Friday “a rather dated vision” and “a real cynicism in terms of geopolitics”. The boss of the Socialist Party, Olivier Faure, judged for his part that if “the opportunity of Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan [était] debatable, the desire of the Taiwanese to live in a democracy is not.