The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday April 25th, 2023
A Road Paved with Irritations: Macron’s Strategic Third Way by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Chinadid not quite go according to plan, though much depends on what was planned to begin with.In one sense,the French Presidentwas consistent, riding the hobbyhorse ofEurope’s strategic autonomy, one hived off from the US imperium and free of Chinese influence.
Europe’s third-way autonomy would be a mighty thing for the Elysée Palace, especially given French pretensions in steering it.After all, Frau “Mutti” Merkel is no longer de facto European chief, presiding over thebloc with matronly care. Her successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, is finding himself caught in undergrowth, a difficult thing at times for the continent’s largest economy, and the globe’s fourth.
What, then, of the fuss? In the first place, Macron had company on his Beijing visit: on his first day of the trip, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had decided to come along. This was never going to go well, given their respective views over the Middle Kingdom. Von der Leyen, for one, uses a larded management approach to Beijing, ringing the relationship with restrictions and signals of constipation.On Taiwan’s status, she sticks to the warring line embraced by policy makers stretching from Canberra to Washington. Macron, at least in one sense, understands the power of China to be not only inextinguishable but a logical weight against the US.
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Where the River Bends #poem by George Cassidy Payne
“Our memories were
Once possibilities of
God’s timeless perfection
Our lives predicted by
Laws of grace, our dreams”
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Ant-Biotics #14 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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