Back last december when the EU was in the final phases of negotiating CAI (Investment Agreement with China), the incoming Biden foreign policy team publicly and privately urged them to hold off until January to enable Biden admin and EU to draw up common approach to China. EU snubbed them, and Macron (who previously had been sceptical) was instrumental in getting it over the line, not least to try and display strategic autonomy.
France has a right to be jilted, but frankly when you have an administration with the most pro-france foreign policy chief one could possibly imagine (Blinken) doing this, then maybe some self-introspection would help too.
I don't know, if it is comparable. Frank dialog vs cancelling a 100B hours before announcing a new one (allegedly? under the press of US, why would otherwise little Australia f**k with France?).
What did Blinken do in terms of pro-french FP?
I'm not sure if this is what urutzizu was referring to exactly, but Blinken lived in France when he was young and speaks fluent French.
