Russia becoming Chinese vassal, says Macron

PARIS: Russia has “already lost geopolitically” its war in Ukraine war and is effectively becoming a vassal state of China, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview published Sunday.

“De facto, it has entered a form of subservience with regards to China and has lost its access to the Baltic, which was critical, because it prompted the decision by Sweden and Finland to join NATO,” Macron told the Opinion newspaper. “This was unthinkable just two years ago. So it´s already a geopolitical defeat,” Macron said ahead of a visit to Paris by Ukraine´s President Volodoymyr Zelensky later Sunday.