Macron warns US and the Indo-Pacific not to abandon Ukraine at the expense of focusing on China

By Euronews with AP

Published on 31/05/2025 - 1:34 GMT+2

French President Emmanuel Macron warned nan US and Indo-Pacific nations connected Friday nighttime that they consequence a vulnerable double modular arsenic they ore connected a imaginable conflict pinch China, if it comes astatine nan costs of abandoning Ukraine. 

Macron's remarks travel arsenic nan US considers withdrawing troops from Europe to alternatively deploy successful nan Indo-Pacific. He warned abandoning Ukraine would frighten US credibility successful deterring imaginable conflict betwixt China and Taiwan. 

"If you see that Russia could beryllium allowed to return a portion of nan territory of Ukraine without immoderate restriction, without immoderate constraint, without immoderate guidance of nan world order, really would you building what would hap successful Taiwan, what would you do nan time thing happened?” he asked successful a speech. 

Macron's comments were made during his keynote reside astatine Shangri-La Dialogue information convention successful Singapore.  

It is nan region’s biggest information forum that comes amid concerns of China’s increasing assertiveness and nan world effect of Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine. 

Notable was nan truth that it nan reside was delivered pinch US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth successful nan audience.  

Rhetoric betwixt Beijing and Washington is heightening. The US has threatened China pinch triple-digit tariffs. There is uncertainty successful nan region complete nan committedness of nan US to Taiwanese information – which besides faces imaginable 32% American tariffs. 

China claims Taiwan arsenic its own. Chinese President Xi Jinping hasn’t ruled retired taking it by force. China regularly sends subject craft and ships adjacent Taiwan and presently has an craft bearer southeast of nan island. 

The US has been pursuing a "free and unfastened Indo-Pacific policy,” which includes regularly sailing warships done nan Taiwan Strait and successful nan South China Sea.