Macron urges Europe to break away from US and China on Taiwan.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been criticised for suggesting that Europe should become a "third pole" independent of both Washington and Beijing on the issue of Taiwan. Political actors on both sides of the Atlantic criticised the president's position as being too accommodating of China, just as it carries out military drills around Taiwan. Macron's comments were seen as a foreign policy disaster for Europe and a PR coup for Xi Jinping.