The president of France on Friday called for a “coalition of action” between European and Asian countries to protect the international order from coercive superpowers, as US President Donald Trump disrupts global trade and security.
Calling the division of the world between the US and China the biggest threat to the world, Emmanuel Macron said the two powers’ competition for global dominance presented others with impossible choices.
“We want to co-operate, but we don’t want to be instructed on a daily basis what is allowed, what is not allowed, and how our life will change because of the decision of a single government,” Macron said in a speech at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s biggest defence conference.