He persists and signs.

In full tension between Beijing and Taipei, the leader of LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, considered in two successive blog posts, Thursday then Saturday, that the visit of the President of the House of Representatives of the United States constituted "a provocation" , while “there is only one China”, which “sits among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council”.

His writings on Taiwan and Nancy Pelosi's visit to the island thus bring to the fore the differences of opinion of the members of the United Left under the Nupes banner.

Judging that “Taiwan is a full-fledged component of China”, Jean-Luc Mélenchon thus took up a term defended by the Beijing regime but rejected by the authorities in Taipei.

Angry environmentalists and socialists

A position in line with the "constant doctrine" of "one China" followed by France since General de Gaulle in 1964, and the need to avoid "a new war front", he argues, supported by his troops within LFI.

Thanked on Twitter by the Chinese Embassy, ​​the former presidential candidate has drawn the wrath of environmentalists and socialists members of the Nupes, while the Communists for their part used a vocabulary similar to his.

“Nancy Pelosi's official visit to Taiwan was intended as bravado;

it turns out to be an inconsequential provocation in an already particularly dangerous global situation,” the PCF’s International-Europe sector tweeted on Friday.

But among the ecologists of EELV, the national secretary Julien Bayou denounces "a real cynicism" of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, whose "vision" in terms of geopolitics appears "quite dated".

As for the boss of the PS Olivier Faure, he judges that if "the advisability of Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan is debatable, the will of the Taiwanese to live in democracy is not".

By writing that "" the Chinese will solve the problem between them "", Jean-Luc Mélenchon " thus leaves open the door of the annexation ", deplores Olivier Faure in an interview with the

Journal du Dimanche

, underlining " the singularity of the socialists " "make no exception when it comes to defending democracy and human rights".

“Adopting the cause of tyrants”

The episode confirms that, united in July and August during the votes in Parliament on purchasing power measures, the members of the Nupes are not united on diplomatic files, as they had also acted in the agreement sealing their alliance in May ahead of the June legislative elections.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February had already highlighted the differences of opinion, between environmentalists demanding arms deliveries to the Ukrainians or rebels defending a "non-alignment" with Russia or the United States.

On Tuesday, the dissensions were reflected in the vote of the National Assembly for the ratification of the protocols of accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO in the context of the war in Ukraine: the PS and ecologist deputies voted for , the LFI deputies against.

"Opposing visions of the world", notes the PS MEP / Public Square Raphaël Glucksmann, who castigates that embodied by Jean-Luc Mélenchon whose "anti-Americanism" is "erected as a compass" and "leads to espouse the cause of tyrants" .

A debate deemed “healthy”

The exit of the Insoumis leader also turns out to be blessed bread for the dissident socialists who had refused to see the PS ally with LFI in Nupes.

La Nupes is “an alliance of opportunism without line!

“, points the finger at the PS mayor of Le Mans Stéphane Le Foll, judging “healthy” the “debate” opened by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, because it is an opportunity for the left to “remain internationalist, European, and above all not no -aligned” as LFI advocates.

In the presidential majority, the LREM / Renaissance MEP Nathalie Loiseau denounces the "scandalous" positions taken by Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

"The policy of one China is that of all, no one disputes it", but "it is not, but not at all, what your leader wrote", she launched on Twitter to Manuel Bompard, Mr. Mélenchon's right-hand man.

France confirmed Thursday through its Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna that it "sticks to its one-China policy", while emphasizing that "the visit of the President or the President of the Chamber of American representatives is not without precedent" in Taiwan, and that "in any case", it "must not be used as a pretext by China for escalating measures which would increase tension".

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  • La France Insoumise (LFI)

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