France’s president called for a new partnership between European and Asian nations to protect the rules-based international order and to avoid being dragged into the growing rivalry between the U.S. and China.

The French leader said he wants to be able to cooperate with the US at the same time as compete with but not confront China. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

By Fanny Potkin, Xinghui Kok and Idrees Ali SINGAPORE (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that division between the two superpowers, the United States and China, is the main risk currently confronting the world as he emphasised the need for building new coalitions between Paris and partners in the Indo-Pacific.