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Why Europe and US will always think differently on China
The stakes are not the same, nor is the geography
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There are reasons, beyond France, to doubt that America and Europe will ever be as one on China.
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Janan Ganesh
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In 1964, when recognising “red” China was still career death for a US president, then French leader Charles de Gaulle did just that.
He later took France out of Nato’s integrated military command. On an epic, almost Homeric tour of Latin America, he pledged to that region his solidarity against an unnamed but not hard-to-guess hegemon.
