He also compared Biden’s decision to Trump’s

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Earlier on Friday, a senior French diplomat, who spoke anonymously in line with standard government practice, said Macron received a letter from Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday morning announcing the decision to cancel the deal on the submarines.

French officials then decided to contact the US administration “to ask what was going on,” he said. He added that talks with Washington took place just two to three hours before Biden’s public announcement.

Le Drian on Thursday expressed “complete misunderstanding” of the move and criticized both Australia and the United States

“It was really a stab in the back. We have built a relationship of trust job function email database with Australia, and that trust has been betrayed, ”he said. “It doesn’t happen between allies.

under his “America First” doctrine.

Paris raised the issue of the Indo-Pacific strategy during the visit to Paris on June 25 by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, expressing the importance of its submarine program with Australia, said the French diplomat.

“We said that for us it was a very important and critical element in our Indo-Pacific strategy,” he said. Blinken met Macron during the visit.

The French diplomat said Australia had never communicated to France its willingness to switch to nuclear-powered submarines, most notably during a meeting between Macron and Morrison in Paris on June 15.