French president delivers veiled warning to Beijing during speech in Singapore.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned China that NATO could become more deeply involved in Asia if Beijing does not do more to stop North Korea from taking part in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
“North Korea in Ukraine is a big question for all of us. If China doesn’t want NATO to be involved in Southeast Asia, it should prevent [North Korea] from being engaged on European soil,” Macron said Friday during an address at a major defense summit in Singapore.
Look at France taking the reigns. Good for you, France. The US is led by a weak ass TACO right now. We can’t help in this way… We are fucking weak. Weak ass US.
Do you think the United States is weak by chance? I kind of got that feeling from your post but you didn’t come right out and say it so I wanted to verify, thanks!
Nah. They voted. They’re weak literally by their choice.
NK is already on the front lines in Ukraine wtf does he mean
that is what he means.
What is he talking about? Japan, Skorea, and Mongolia are already NATO global partners.
‘Partners’ doesn’t really mean much though.
NATO is European only, there is little to no chance any of us in the Pacific are joining on to save Europe in a land war for a third time, as there no chance Europe would ever lift a finger to help Australia or Japan if China decides it’s go time.
as there no chance Europe would ever lift a finger to help Australia or Japan if China decides it’s go time.
This is absolute nonsense by the way.
That is probably true. NATO members will look at cost benefits just like everyone else. SE Asia needs to be responsible for its own security, not rely on others.
NATO is not europe only, though, US is not europe… Anyone can apply to join.
Yes, that’s what Quad is about - it’s a step towards rebuilding a Pacific defense alliance. (Quad isn’t yet an alliance)
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. So technically, not everybody can join. That’s why there are the global partners.
Look at this serious and credible threat! Wow, I guess Xi Jiping is quaking in his boots right now
What kind of idiot would underestimate France. They’re a nuclear power, hold a permanent seat on the Security Council, and brought us democracy as we know it.
Right. That’ll show them… Western leadership has never read a book on China have they? Him saying this all but ensures China is going to the opposite.
Has Pakistan shot down the French jets? India hasn’t confirmed those losses. If true then France doesn’t have much power to project.
On 7 May, Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour. Pakistan claimed that three Dassault Rafales, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI fighter jet, and one Israeli-manufactured IAI Heron UAV belonging to the Indian Air Force were shot down. If true, would first time that a French-origin Dassault Rafale has been lost in combat, reportedly having been shot down by the Chinese-origin Chengdu J-10. This, along with the performance of Chinese-origin PL-15E missiles in the combat, reportedly gained global attention.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_India–Pakistan_conflict
All the downvotes, what’s wrong with my comment?
Is the plan to kill some more millions of southeast Asians like good ol’ days
It is, hence the downvotes. Liberals look at what we did to North Korea and Vietnam during the war and think “we should’ve gone harder bc they’re evil communists”. Also apparently they just don’t give a shit about trying not to start another world war
I don’t think Americans and Europeans know how much invasions into southeast Asia in the 1800s and prior there were. It’s not a post-WW2 thing. It’s centuries of atrocities in the region. Someday the UK are going to be grandstanding against India too and people out here will be confused why Indians aren’t wistfully looking back to the days of the British empire exporting foods by coercion while Indians go through famines
Everyone’s knows this and looking back to something that happened 200 years ago trying to make it relevant to today’s politics is laughable to say the least.
China is clearly showing its imperial ambitions. Remember Tibet? Somehow tankies convenient forget it even with monks literally burning themselves to get attention they get none.
Tankies perceive the old Tibet like the West perceives Iran, as an abusive Theocracy. That changes the evaluation.
Why is NATO concerned about Ukraine? Maybe you should have accepted their application. Didn’t y’all reject them?
NATO doesn’t allow nations to join while in a tive conflict, for good reason.
Every European country would be happy to let them join once this is over.
Not sure Hungary does. But most of Europe I agree
Well, we told them that they can join without serious security measures against an Invasion from Russia.
Its an alliance not Walmart
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What imperialism?
NATO has obvious problems even near its own borders, Macron’s threats aren’t even funny, they’re pathetic.
With the majority of the Russian military tied up in Ukraine NATO can absolutely afford to increase their involvement in South East Asia, especially considering NATO has significant naval power that doesn’t need to do much beyond keeping Russian junkers from ripping up undersea cables.
