A pilot sitting in a French Dassault Rafale fighter jet at the 2021 Dubai Airshow in the Gulf emirate, on November 14, 2021. - AFP
PARIS, Nov 23 (Reuters): France will try to cement deeper ties in the Indo-Pacific region when its foreign minister arrives in Indonesia on Tuesday as it counters the loss of a strategic defence deal with Australia in September.
Paris accused its allies of stabbing it in the back when Australia opted for nuclear-powered submarines to be built with U.S. and British technology instead of a multi-billion dollar French submarine programme.
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