US President Joe Biden spoke with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday “to discuss the implications”, according to a joint statement by both governments, of a military alliance with Britain and Australia, which cancelled its US$66 billion purchase of French submarines.
Macron agreed to send French ambassador Philippe Etienne back to Washington; he had been recalled to France two days after the announcement last week of the trilateral “Aukus” partnership took Paris by surprise.
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