Macron warns that the West may lose confidence in Ukraine and gas

French President Emmanuel Macron warned the US and Europe, risked its authority and is accused of “double standards” if they do not resolve wars in Ukraine and gas soon.

He also appealed to Asian countries to build a new alliance with Europe to make sure they did not become “by -damage” in the fight for power between the US and China.

Macron performed in the Socke-La dialogue, a high-level Asian Summit in Asia held in Singapore.

Among the guests who listened were US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegset, as well as leading military officials from the region.

Macron noted that if Russia can accept the Ukrainian territory “without any restrictions, without any restrictions … What can happen in Taiwan? What do you do on the day that something happens in the Philippines?”

“What is said in Ukraine is our general authority that we can still maintain the territorial integrity and sovereignty of people,” he said. “No double standards.”

Many in Asia are worried about instability in the region when China tries to forcibly “reunite” with Taiwan, a self -governed island that Beijing claims within its territory. China is also increasingly encountered by the Philippines of the competing claims in the South -Chinese Sea.

Later, Macron answered a question posed by BBC’s security correspondent Frank Gardner on the military role of Europe in Asia, while the continent was still raging.

“If, both American and Europeans cannot in the short term of the Ukrainian situation, I think the trust in the US and Europeans who pretend that any crisis will be corrected in the region,” the French leader said.

US President Donald Trump has tightened pressure on both Russia and Ukraine’s leaders to end the war, and it seemed to give Vladimir Putin a two -week term. Earlier, Trump also defeated Ukrainian leader Valodimir Zelensky and accused him of “not ready for peace”.

Macron also expressed his opinion on double war standards in Gaza, acknowledging that there is a perception that the West has given a “free pass” to Israel.

He emphasized the importance of working on ceasefire and a mutual recognition of the Palestinian state, saying: “If we give up gas, considering that there is a free pass for Israel, even when we condemn the terrorist attacks, we kill our own authority in the rest of the world.”

He said that “it is very important to be consistent and follow our principles and rules.”

In recent weeks, European leaders have criticized Israel’s attacks for strengthening the more desperate humanitarian gas situation.

Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a brilliant attack on Macron and Canada and UK, accusing them in an effective direction with Hamas and “on the wrong side of humanity.”

Meanwhile, the United States has cooperated with Israel to make a ceasefire in Hamas, while creating a significant criticized aid distribution model.

Macron also used his speech on Friday to sell his vision of “strategic autonomy”, where countries defend their interests, simultaneously cooperating to maintain a global order based on the rules.

He advertised France both to be friends with both the US and China, protecting its sovereignty, and said that this model could underlie the new alliance between Europe and Asia.

“We want to cooperate, but we do not want to depend … We do not want them to be instructed daily that it is allowed, that it is not allowed and how our lives can change because of the decision of one person,” he said, which seemed to be a veiled reference to Trump or Chinese President Xi Jinping.

He also referred to the world’s tariffs and uncertainty of Trump’s allies in US security commitments, saying: “We can’t just stay sitting and say … what we do with tariffs, well, we are not so sure that we have a full guarantee in the existing alliance that we do?”

“We want to act, we want to maintain our stability, peace and our prosperity,” he said, calling on a “new positive alliance between Europe and Asia”, where they would guarantee that “our countries do not harm imbalances related to the choosing superior.”

He noted that both the problems of Europe and Asia were increasingly intertwined, and again referred to the war of Ukraine, where North Korea helps the efforts of Russia with thousands of its troops.

Macron said he had objected to NATO’s Western Alliance in Asia in the past, “because I do not want to participate in a strategic rival.”

“But what is happening to North Korea, which is present with Russia on European soil, is a great question for all of us,” he said.

“So, if China does not want NATO to participate in Southeast Asia or Asia, they should prevent clearly (North Korea) on European soil.”

Mathieu Djushatel, Director of International Studies in the Paris Analytical Tank Montana, said Macron’s comments about the authority “meant criticism of the US Middle East and a direct call for the US to adjust diplomacy to Russia.”

Observers agree that China is likely to be angry with Macron’s speech, and Dr. Dukatel noted that the French leader’s comments on Taiwan were “the farthest thing he went” on the matter.

Some parts of Asia may welcome Macron’s message about strategic autonomy, given their alarm about the choice between the US and China, said Andrew Malya, a senior employee of the Asia-Pacific program based in Washington, an analytical GMF tank.

“His argument is that most of the rest of the world does not want to be detained with this dichotomy and wants to collect together some version of the global order – that’s what a number of states in Asia will agree,” he said.

Among the several European and Asian states, Dr. Small, “was” a real concern about how China would interpret the Russian victory in Ukraine, “while” Trump administration accepts another opinion and tries to read. “

He added that Macron’s mention of the recognition of the Palestinian state – at which France was leading the European efforts – had to signal “we are moving to it”.