The virtual Munich Security Conference kicked off on Friday with a wary warming of ties between President Joe Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron.
The New York Times’ write-up of the confab noted the overall positive tone, while acknowledging Macron’s resistance to Biden’s transatlantic bonhomie: Macron “made an impassioned defence of his concept of ‘strategic autonomy’ from the United States, making the case that Europe can no longer be overly dependent on the United States as it focuses more of its attention on Asia, especially China.”
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Daniel Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
