WASHINGTON: Vice President Kamala Harris struggled at the charm of the White Offensive building aimed at French President Emmanuel Macron.
Vice-President arrived in Paris on Tuesday for a four-day visit, the latest step in a joint effort by the Biden government to sustain US relations with the oldest allies in America.
Washington’s relationship with Paris crashed into a historic low this year after the US submarine department.
– England with Australia is tiered with Australians.
Harris will sit with Macron on Wednesday at the Élysée palace for the conversation expected to focus on the two countries can better coordinate efforts at the Indo-Pacific.
High-level meetings came less than two weeks after President Joe Biden met Macron on the margin of the 20th Group of Summit in Rome and admitted that his government had handled the submarine agreement in “awkward”.
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And the UK to provide Australia with submarine technology has been framed as an opportunity for A.S.
To increase the capacity of the Pacific Ally Key Navy because Biden’s administration is increasingly worried about China’s military aggressiveness in the region.
But France was angry, said it was stored in the dark about the agreement and his interests were ignored despite having an area in the Indo-Pacific with 2 million people and 7,000 soldiers.
France also complained that the episode weakened the Biden message that he would stabilize and strengthen the Trans-Atlantic Alliance after four years approaching “the first America” ​​of President Donald Trump for foreign policy.
France even briefly pulled its ambassador from the US in protest, first did it in about 250 years of diplomatic relations between countries.
Harris and Macron are also expected to touch global health, space and other problems.
On Tuesday, Harris will tour the famous Pasteur Institute.
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Harris, who is a scientist, collaborated with the Institute scientists in breast cancer research in the 1980s.
Harris will give a speech on Thursday at the Paris Paris Annual Forum and participate the following day at the Paris conference in Libya.
He will join her husband, Douglas Emhoff, for the visit.
The vice president wants to take where Biden goes in Rome in an effort to clarify that he sees relationships with France as critical for the US.
For that, he and Emhoff will visit the Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial outside Paris.
The 7.5-hectare funeral (3 hectares) contained remnants of 1,559 Americans who died in World War I and 23 who were unknown to death in World War II.
Harris will also participate in the ceremony to mark the Helper Day, the Final French Warning of World War I.
Thursday is also a veteran day in the United States.