France’s top diplomat unleashed a stream of invective against President Joe Biden after the U.S. and the U.K. announced a new security alliance for the Pacific region which will cost the French defense industry some 90 billion Australian dollars (€56 billion ).
Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told France Info on Thursday that he felt "stabbed in the back” over the "unacceptable” deal that will hurt French business and shuts the French military out of a key initiative in Western efforts to build a bulwark against China.
"This unilateral, brutal, unforeseeable decision really looks like what Mr. Trump was doing,” Le Drian said. "This move is unacceptable between allies who want to develop a structured Indo-Pacific partnership.”