{"id":18195,"date":"2023-04-20T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-to-speak-to\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T19:04:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:04:21","slug":"biden-frances-macron-reaffirm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-frances-macron-reaffirm\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden, France&#8217;s Macron reaffirm maintaining peace across Taiwan Strait- White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed Macron&#8217;s state visit to China, the White House said, a week after Macron&#8217;s remarks following the visit raised eyebrows in Washington <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. The Presidents also reiterated their steadfast support for Ukraine in the face of Russia&#8217;s brutal aggression,&#8221; the White House said.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Politico and daily Les Echos following the China state visit, Macron indicated Europe should avoid being drawn into a conflict over Taiwan and should focus on \u201cstrategic autonomy\u201d independent from both the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke earlier on Thursday to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and the White House said China was a key topic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two leaders discussed President von der Leyen\u2019s recent trip to Beijing and their shared commitment to upholding the rules-based international order, human rights, and fair trade practices,&#8221; a White House statement said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jeff Mason and Steve Holland; Editing by Franklin Paul, David Gregorio and Leslie Adler)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/biden-to-speak-to\/u-s-president-biden-and-mrs-biden-host-french-president-macron\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0VG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0VG-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden spoke by phone on Thursday with French President Emmanuel Macron and discussed Macron&#8217;s state visit to China, the White House said, a week after Macron&#8217;s remarks following the visit raised eyebrows in Washington &#8220;They reaffirmed the importance of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. The Presidents also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-18195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportWorldNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3J0VG-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}