When a foreign leader visits China, and the Commie state media gush about how amazing and popular he is, you know that leader is dangerously beholden to and admiring of the Chinese dictatorship.
Is it any surprise that President Emmanuel Macron’s France is fast becoming a chaotic, tyrannical, anti-freedom cesspool, when he is working hand in glove with the genocidal Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
Global Times, a Chinese state media outlet, took a brief break from threatening Taiwan and America to declare gleefully, “Chinese netizens buzz over Macron’s enthusiastic interaction with students; French president receiving greeting reminiscent of rock star.” Even as the government in China tightens its grip on social media content, assuring that only pro-regime content is allowed, Macron clips trended. Which tells you a lot about how enmeshed he is with the CCP. Global Times raved:
These more personalized and informal interactions help strengthen the sense of closeness, deepen understanding of each other's ideas, reasoning, and policy intentions, and promote greater engagement , all of which have a highly positive impact on the development of bilateral relations, Ding Chun, director of the Center for European Studies at Fudan University, told the Global Times.
Or, in other words, the CCP sees Macron as a perfect puppet.
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He certainly seems to borrow quite a few ideas from his CCP pals. Back in 2022, Macron authorized creation of a digital ID application, the first step toward the aggressive censorship and surveillance state the CCP has built — partly through digital ID. Many French citizens rightly reacted with fury, but that didn’t stop Macron, whose government this year apparently expanded the program.
Speaking of censorship, the CCP seems to have inspired Macron in this area, too, as he rushes to crush free speech. Reclaim the Net reported on his latest crackdown:
The plan, delivered between polite applause and nodding journalists, is a major expansion of France’s digital control architecture: fast-track censorship orders, new powers for state agencies, a legal war against “false accounts,” criminal liability for platforms, and a promise to ban social media for anyone under fifteen, enforced by the same age-checking system used for pornography.
The speech was a kind of legislative fever dream, where misinformation, harassment, and child protection were all conflated into a single moral emergency requiring more state authority and faster judicial reflexes. Macron’s frustration was clear. He wants the ability to hit delete.
The French president also sneered in November at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty, “Don't believe one second on this so-called free speech agenda… This is the Wild West, not free speech.” He promised increased censorship demands to technology companies.
Ironically, even as he tramples the rights of his own citizens, Macron is largely ignoring the crisis that mass Muslim migration has caused in his country. Perhaps that also is pleasing to the CCP, given China’s alignment with Iran and Gaza.
