{"id":771106,"date":"2021-09-16T21:14:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=771106"},"modified":"2021-09-16T21:14:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T01:14:29","slug":"watch-reporter-grills-psaki-on-france-feeling-betrayed-over-deal-biden-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-reporter-grills-psaki-on-france-feeling-betrayed-over-deal-biden-made\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Reporter Grills Psaki On France Feeling Betrayed Over Deal Biden Made"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-reporter-grills-psaki-on-france-feeling-betrayed-over-deal-biden-made%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=771106&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/JPsaki-1-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed during Thursday\u2019s news conference over the administration\u2019s response to France saying that they felt betrayed over a deal that the administration made with Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLate on Wednesday, the $40 billion submarine contract signed in 2016 with a French company was passed over for the newly established partnership dubbed \u2018AUKUS,&#8217;\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/france-u-s-australia-submarine-deal-china\">reported<\/a>. \u201cWhile the deal with France would have provided Australia with conventional submarines, the new alliance will instead grant the Indo-Pacific nation with highly sensitive nuclear submarine technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of the deal, France canceled a gala in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the relationship that has France has with the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I would first say that we value our relationship and our partnership with France on a variety of issues facing the global community, whether it\u2019s economic growth, or whether it\u2019s the fight against COVID, or addressing security throughout the world,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cAnd that has been a longstanding partnership for many, many years.&nbsp;I would leave it, of course, to our Australian partners to describe why they sought this new technology and why they pursued this technology from the United States.&nbsp;As you know, part of their \u2014 part of their issue is that there was a purchase of technology from \u2014 that Australia had made with the French. But we\u2019ll let Australia speak to that and why they [pursue] \u2014 or why they purchased this technology.&nbsp;We cooperate closely with France. As the president said yesterday, we have a range of shared priorities in the Indo-Pacific, and that will certainly continue. We don\u2019t see this, from our end, as a regional divide. We see this as areas in security \u2014 security issues that we want to take on together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the admin blindsided France with the deal, or if they knew that it was coming, Psaki said that France knew that it was coming.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7533039647577\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We value our relationship and our partnership with France,&#8221; Psaki said, addressing the French response to the AUKUS deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mDQCIMg6oJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/mDQCIMg6oJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bt3IAERlFF\">pic.twitter.com\/Bt3IAERlFF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Quicktake\/status\/1438590706474496011?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"75\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: Thank you, Jen. A couple questions on the same topic: this agreement announced yesterday, the AUKUS agreement \u2014 in particular, the reaction from two different countries. First, China, who said that \u2014 who accused this agreement of escalating tensions in the region and said it was reflective of a, quote, \u201cCold War mentality.\u201d Do you have a response to that? Is President Biden looking to escalate a Cold War with China?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MS. PSAKI: No. This partnership, announced yesterday, is not about any one country. This is about advancing our strategic interests, the strategic interest of the United States, upholding the international rules-based order, and promoting peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.&nbsp;And I would note that the United Kingdom and Australia also have a long history, as does the United States, of upholding the international rules-based order. So our hope is that the three countries who have consistently worked with regional supporters to support a secure and stable and peaceful Indo-Pacific can now work together to do exactly that. As it relates to China, we welcome stiff competition with the PRC. We do not seek conflict. Obviously, the president spoke with President Xi just a few days ago. And certainly, we\u2019re committed to maintaining an open, high-level dialogue between the leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: The other country reacting strongly to this is France. The French foreign minister deemed it a, quote, \u201cstab in the back,\u201d compared it to a \u201cunilateral\u201d decision like the ones made by former President Trump. Just now, France has canceled a gala here in Washington that was meant to celebrate friendship with the United States. What reaction do you have to France\u2019s rather outraged response to this agreement?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MS. PSAKI: Well, I would first say that we value our relationship and our partnership with France on a variety of issues facing the global community, whether it\u2019s economic growth, or whether it\u2019s the fight against COVID, or addressing security throughout the world. And that has been a longstanding partnership for many, many years.&nbsp;I would leave it, of course, to our Australian partners to describe why they sought this new technology and why they pursued this technology from the United States.&nbsp;As you know, part of their \u2014 part of their issue is that there was a purchase of technology from \u2014 that Australia had made with the French. But we\u2019ll let Australia speak to that and why they [pursue] \u2014 or why they purchased this technology.&nbsp;We cooperate closely with France, as the president said yesterday, we have a range of shared priorities in the Indo-Pacific, and that will certainly continue. We don\u2019t see this, from our end, as a regional divide. We see this as areas in security \u2014 security issues that we want to take on together.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: Last one, then I\u2019ll hand off. On the same subject, the French have also said that this is undermining relations with U.S. and its European partners. And they said they were blindsided by this deal. Did President Biden or the administration convey ahead of time to France that this was coming? Do they plan to speak today?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: I don\u2019t have any preview of calls for you. I will say that I\u2019m sure we will \u2014 the president will speak at a high level soon. But we are engaged closely \u2014 and we were engaged, in advance of this announcement, with leaders in France about \u2014 about this purchase.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: They were told it was coming?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: They were aware in advance of the announcement. Yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was pressed during Thursday\u2019s news conference over the administration\u2019s response to France saying that they felt betrayed over a deal that the administration made &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}