There is a widening gap now between Eastern and Western European countries along those lines. While there is a shared understanding that a new beefiness in defense matters is vital, the degree of continued reliance on the United States - with its atomic weapons and troop deployments across Europe - as the ultimate security guarantor is where opinions collide. The problem, according to analysts, is strategic autonomy means different things to different governments in Europe, and there’s no defined end state of when it might be realized. Without it, Macron said, Europe risks becoming a “vassal” to other powers, including the United States, which could be on a collision course with China over Taiwan’s independence. Strategic autonomy - the ability to provide for one’s own security, he told journalists aboard the plane flying him home from a visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in April - must become Europe’s organizing principle.
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