• Anti-China pact France responds to the Aukus military alliance with a diplomatic crisis with the US

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, will meet in Europe in October, as reported by the White House after the

telephone conversation

that both leaders have had this Wednesday, according to Reuters reports, on the crisis unleashed in As a result of the strategic Defense agreement between the US, the UK and Australia (Aukus).

According to a joint statement, Biden and Macron will launch a process of "deep consultations" to ensure mutual "trust", reports Afp.

"The two leaders agreed that the situation would have benefited from open consultations between allies," the statement added, referring to Paris' complaints about the little prior notice it received about the pact, Efe said.

The French president

will send the French ambassador to Washington back next

week, "with the aim of starting to work intensively with the US," an official communication quoted by Reuters said.

For his part, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recommended this Wednesday to France that it calm down and control its anger over the recent defense alliance between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, which led to the

cancellation by Canberra of a multi-million dollar contract to buy French submarines

and replace them with nuclear-powered American ones.

In statements to the press outside the Washington Capitol, where he is on an official visit, Johnson sent a

message to Paris

about the criticism leveled against the three countries that signed the agreement, known by its acronym Aukus, reports Efe.

"I think it's time for our dear friends around the world to settle down about all of this and give me a break," Johnson said

jokingly

. He even used an expression mixing French and English to say it: "Donnez-moi un break". The British Prime Minister also remarked that "the pact is fundamentally a great step in favor of global security." "They are three allies with a very similar mindset, who support each other shoulder to shoulder and create a new alliance to share technology," he added.

The Elysee had its hopes pinned on the conversation between Biden and Macron to settle the crisis generated by the creation of the Aukus, since France had a contract for the delivery to Australia of

twelve conventional propulsion

(diesel)

submarines

valued at 56,000 million euros that was annulled by Canberra within that alliance that guarantees to have nuclear submersibles with American technology.

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