Macron Ignores Western Powers, Looks to China For Peace Deal With Russia In Ukraine Conflict

According to Bloomberg, sources speaking to French officials revealed that Macron, who recently visited Guangdong to hold talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, has tasked top diplomats from Paris to engage with Beijing in crafting a deal to end the war in Ukraine. The Elysée believes that should certain conditions be met; a deal could be struck by the summer.

These conditions include the success of Kyiv's spring counter-offensive, which would allow the Zelensky government to come to the table with Vladimir Putin from a position of strength.

Macron has reportedly tapped his foreign policy advisor Emmanuel Bonne to work alongside the CCP's top diplomat, Wang Yi, to begin crafting a potential peace framework. Despite initially engaging with Moscow in the early days following the invasion, Macron fell in line with the neo-liberal establishment later and backed sending money and weapons to the region to prop up the proxy war.

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Although Beijing proposed a supposed framework for peace negotiations in February, it was widely dismissed as light on detail and unworkable given China's close relationship with Russia. Yet, the French President believes that the communist regime is a genuine actor in the cause for peace.

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Should Macron manage to pull off the feat, it would be a significant embarrassment for the administration of President Joe Biden, which has focused on a military outcome rather than an attempt to play peacemaker. In recent memory, Biden has overseen one of the most chaotic periods on the world stage and has alienated allies from Paris to Jeddah.

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However, it remains to be seen if Macron has the clout to broker a deal, with the Kremlin previously stating that France, alongside the United States, UK, and Germany, should not be considered as candidates to mediate between Kyiv and Moscow given that the Western powers have all sent weapons to be used on the battlefield against Russian soldiers. Russian President Putin's apparent thirst for war and domestic damage to his reputation for being seen to bow to the West is also a critical stumbling block.

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It is also questionable if France has enough credibility with the Ukrainians, with some, including former British Conservative party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, noting that his role in mediating the Minsk peace agreement alongside then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 2014 has left a sour taste in the mouths of many in Ukraine given that it failed to prevent last year's invasion.

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But Macron's trouble at home might sink his ambitions to play the global leader. His government has been embroiled in a crisis as millions of French citizens have revolted over the past month against the disastrous economic realities facing the nation after five years of his neo-liberal globalist governance style.