France and the United States will celebrate 250 years as allies when President Macron opens a visit to Washington tomorrow that enshrines his place as the pivotal player for the Biden administration’s touchy ties with Europe.
Honouring Macron with the first state visit of his 22-month-old administration, President Biden is pulling out the stops to rekindle amity with the oldest US ally. It comes after a toxic spell last year following the secret negotiation of an “Anglo-Saxon” security pact in the Pacific that killed a longstanding Australian order for French submarines.
With Macron seething over what he called a treacherous breach of trust by Canberra, Washington and London, Biden swiftly acknowledged “clumsiness” in the way the so-called Aukus alliance had been handled. Unlike the British
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