French President Emmanuel Macron sparked massive anger in the week after Easter suggesting that Europe should not be a “vassal” in the U.S.-China geopolitical rivalries. The continent, he said, should avoid being drawn especially into the two nations’ conflict over Taiwan.
Little wonder, then, that the president has invited criticism from many quarters for speaking his heart as a European, including from certain political circles in Germany. But many of this country’s corporate heads and business leaders would rather agree with Macron’s view than disagree.
