New from me: White House and State Department said they understand the French position and place highest value on US France relationship, will try to resolve differences in the coming days, after France recalls ambassador diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
“We should have talked to the French earlier,” one U.S. official said. “The Europe crowd got involved very late…and it shows.”
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“It indicates a clear sense on the part of the people who put this together that they had somehow lost sight of the President’s clear interest in rebuilding the alliance relationships & doing it in a very strong way,” ex US envoy to India Tom Pickering diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
Before tonight’s more conciliatory statements, the Biden admin has gone into something of a defensive crouch in failing to explain what happened in its policy process that opened a breach in 1 alliance while pursuing partnership to address a rising China. diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
I wonder too if US haste, seeming lack of internal and allied consultation, was related to demonstrating we really mean to pivot to Asia after Afghanistan pullout. diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
I don’t know exactly how this decision worked, but there seems to be something off with the inter agency process, that key equities did not get adequately worked through in advance. diplomatic.substack.com/p/france-recal…
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