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French newspapers returned widely, Friday, September 17, on the diplomatic crisis triggered by Australia, after the breach of the "contract of the century", an order for French submarines for more than 50 billion euros.

The crisis has repercussions as far as Beijing.

"Canberra's breach of the contract of the century for the benefit of American submarines triggered the anger of French diplomacy, which saw its strategy weakened in the Indo-Pacific zone", writes

Liberation

. "Why America is torpedoing France", challenges

Le Parisien

. "The underside of a shipwreck," adds

L'Humanité

. The newspapers use and abuse in their titles of linguistic references taken from the lexicon of the navy.

In this crisis, as

Le Temps

underlines

, "the West is confronting Beijing" by sealing a defense alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

"Canberra is taking the risk of worsening its already difficult relationship" with China, said the Swiss newspaper.

The Chinese daily

Global Times also

warns that this agreement could make Australia a "potential target of nuclear war".

An anniversary on one of

Le Figaro

 : 40 years of the TGV "which revolutionized transport".

L'Opinion

notes, however, that this high-speed train reveals France's "strengths and weaknesses".

Finally, the Arc de Triomphe packaged by Christo.

A posthumous work that makes people react beyond borders.

In Spain,

La Vanguardia

publishes on the front page a photo of the monument with this comment: "the triumph of art in Paris".

Hoy 17 de septiembre, in the portada of 'La Vanguardia', el desafío de Biden disappeared the tensión con China, Gobierno y sindicatos pactan suffer 15 euros el SMI desde septiembre y el triunfo del arte in París.



📲 https://t.co/232XIGf21E pic.twitter.com/Nri0C1OuUm

- La Vanguardia (@LaVanguardia) September 17, 2021

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