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(a) Well, I can find no English news report on what President Macron's talk on the plane. The only I can find is from Politico, whose reporter was on the plane, with two other journalists.
(i) Politico https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico
(2007- ;"it was acquired by Axel Springer SE, a German publisher in 2021. Axel Springer is Europe's largest newspaper publisher")
(ii) Here is the news report.
Jamil Anderlini and Clea Caulcutt, Europe Must Resist Pressure to Become 'America’s followers,' Says Macron. Politico, https://www.politico.eu/article/ ... pressure-interview/
(A) I was most interested what is the word in English for 附庸, which is so pejorative in Chinese.
(B) To be frank, what Macron said is quite ordinary to me, considering France's long history (since World War II) of seeking a role for herself on the world stage.
(C) Jamil Anderlini was previously a Beijing correspondent with Financial Times.