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MMr. President, In this letter I cannot invoke morality or nice ideas, however safety and sovereignty. I cannot name you to idealism, however to realism. Yes, to realism. Not within the sense, clearly, given to this time period by cynics who confuse it with renunciation and indifference. No, the realism I'm speaking about is aware of the facility of ideologies and prepares for main ruptures.

On May 6, you’ll obtain the Chinese President, Xi Jinping, for his first go to to Europe because the pandemic. You roll out the pink carpet and also you even invite him [le 7 mai] on a spot expensive to your childhood within the Pyrenees, an intimate place supposed to provide this particular relationship that you simply dream of the clothes of friendship. And you’ll, as normal, justify such obsequiousness within the face of a dictator by the must be reasonable.

But there’s nothing “realistic” about your obsequious angle. The first commandment of realism is to base its coverage on actuality. However, the basic actuality of Europe in 2024 is Vladimir Putin's conflict in Ukraine. And this conflict, Mr. President, is supported financially and diplomatically by the Chinese President, Xi Jinping. Without China's assist, Russia wouldn’t have been capable of face Western sanctions and mount such a conflict effort.

Our dependence is immense

And the Russian-Chinese alliance has nothing to do with the state of affairs. When the leaders of the 2 strongest dictatorships on the planet rejoice their “friendship without limits” within the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine, this isn’t a bluff, however a necessary geopolitical truth, based mostly on a shared hostility in the direction of us, a hostility far more deeply rooted than you appear to imagine .

This alliance has just one objective: to revise the worldwide order and weaken our democracies. Externally and internally. At the pinnacle of the European Parliament's particular committee on international interference, I dissected the efforts to destabilize our political and financial methods by Russia and China. I analyzed the cooperation between these two dictatorships within the assaults carried out in opposition to our nations, our data house or our firms.

We come to the second elementary actuality of Europe in 2024 on which we should base our inside and exterior coverage. We have grow to be a continent of shoppers: shoppers of safety produced within the United States, shoppers of power produced within the Gulf and shoppers of products produced in China, notably in strategic sectors of the ecological transition.

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