French President Emmanuel Macron was the “target of Chinese flattery” and it worked a “treat” during his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, says Perth USAsia Centre CEO Gordon Flake.
“He ended up saying a lot of things in China that he’s now had to walk back now that he’s back in France,” Mr Flake told Sky News Australia.
“In the end, his comments on Taiwan have given the greatest concern – his suggestion that neither France nor anyone in Europe had interest in accelerating the situation in Taiwan.”
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