Just hours after a feel-good trip by Emmanuel Macron and Xi Jinping to southern China, the Chinese navy has launched a major naval drill around Taiwan. While several fleets trained to blockade the Taiwanese islands, Macron spoke in an interview that Europe will not follow „neither the US nor China“ on Taiwan. It should go its own way and thus become the „third superpower“, the French president said in an interview with the newspaper Les Echos.