{"id":952918,"date":"2021-11-02T09:28:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=952918"},"modified":"2021-11-02T09:29:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T13:29:01","slug":"australian-pm-undermines-macrons-credibility-leaks-text-from-french-leader-after-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/australian-pm-undermines-macrons-credibility-leaks-text-from-french-leader-after-insults\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian PM Undermines Macron&#039;s Credibility, Leaks Text from French Leader After Insults"},"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%2Faustralian-pm-undermines-macrons-credibility-leaks-text-from-french-leader-after-insults%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=952918&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\/11\/GettyImages-1233471306-e1635837805913-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2013 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated \u201cbad news\u201d about a now-scuttled submarine deal.<\/p>\n<p>An Australian newspaper cast doubt on President Joe Biden\u2019s explanation to Macron last week that the U.S. leader thought the French had been informed long before the September announcement that their 90 billion Australian dollar ($66 billion) submarine deal with Australia would be scrapped.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Macron this week accused Morrison of lying to him at a Paris dinner in June about the fate of a 5-year-old contract with majority French state-owned Naval Group to build 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines. Australia cancelled that deal when it formed an alliance with U.S. and Britain to acquire a fleet of eight nuclear-powered submarines built with U.S. technology.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison told Australian reporters who had accompanied him to Glasgow, Scotland, for a U.N. climate conference that he made clear to Macron at their dinner in June that conventional submarines would not meet Australia\u2019s evolving strategic needs.<\/p>\n<p>Two days before Morrison, Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the nuclear submarine deal, Morrison attempted to phone Macron with the news, but the French leader texted back saying he was not available to take a call, The Australian newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Macron asked: \u201cShould I expect good or bad news for our joint submarines ambitions?\u201d the newspaper reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A journalist asked why Morrison decided to leak the text message after Macron accused him of lying, but the prime minister did not directly answer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to indulge your editorial on it, but what I\u2019ll simply say is this: We were contacted when we were trying to set up the \u2026 call and he made it pretty clear that he was concerned that this would be a phone call that could result in the decision of Australia not to proceed with the contract,\u201d Morrison said.<\/p>\n<p>French officials said their government had been blindsided by the contract cancellation which French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian described as a \u201cstab in the back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Macron said this week the nuclear submarine deal was \u201cvery bad news for the credibility of Australia and very bad news for the trust that great partners can have with Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Morrison said Macron\u2019s accusation of lying, which the prime minister denies, was a slur against Australia. Most Australian observers see it as a personal insult against Morrison.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t wish to personalize this, there\u2019s no element of that from my perspective,\u201d Morrison said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI must say that I think the statements that were made questioning Australia\u2019s integrity and the slurs that have been placed on Australia, not me \u2014 I\u2019ve got broad shoulders, I can deal with that \u2013 but those slurs, I\u2019m not going to cop sledging of Australia. I\u2019m not going to cop that on behalf of Australians,\u201d Morrison said. Sledging is a cricketing term for abusive needling of opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told Macron that the handling of the Australian submarine alliance was \u201cclumsy\u201d and \u201cnot done with a lot of grace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was under the impression that France had been informed long before that the (French) deal would not go through. I honest to God did not know you had not,\u201d Biden told Macron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1027027027027\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden Admits to Emmanuel Macron He Was Clueless and \u2018Clumsy\u2019 over Axed Australian Submarine Deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xlUCPcHdFy\">https:\/\/t.co\/xlUCPcHdFy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1454411258187304968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But a 15-page document negotiated by the White House National Security Council with Australian and British officials detailed to the hour how the world would be told about the trilateral submarine deal, <em>The Australian<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Minister Peter Dutton confirmed that the United States and Britain were kept informed on Australia\u2019s dealings with France, saying the three nuclear-propulsion allies \u201cworked very closely together in lockstep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a no-surprises strategy,\u201d Dutton told Sydney Radio 2GB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States and the United Kingdom were kept informed of our every move, and similarly us of theirs, and the suggestion that we went outside of that or there was some other process is, of course, just plain wrong,\u201d Dutton added.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Turnbull, the Australian prime minister who signed the French submarine contract and considers Macron a personal friend, has accused News Corp newspapers, including The Australian, of being biased toward Morrison\u2019s conservative government.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison \u201ccan twist and turn and leak a text message here and leak a document there to his stenographic friends in the media, but ultimately the failure here was one of not being honest,\u201d Turnbull said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned that the government\u2019s apparent leaking of Macron\u2019s text message would escalate bilateral tensions and could damage international trust in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe French president has an election coming up. There are all sorts of pressures on him and I think for us to lower the tone by leaking private text messages \u2014 really?\u201d said Bishop, who was foreign minister and Morrison\u2019s Cabinet colleague from 2013 until 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m concerned that the rest of the world will look at Australia and say: Nah. Can Australia be trusted on contracts, not to leak private messages?\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.6333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The French government is seething over Australia&#8217;s decision to drop a troubled multi-billion French submarine deal in favour of collaboration with Britain and America, describing it as &#8220;treason&#8221; and accusing the British of being in &#8220;America&#8217;s lap&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e0a7iy11Kj\">https:\/\/t.co\/e0a7iy11Kj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1439568417841946624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Opposition leader Anthony Albanese, who aims to replace Morrison as prime minister at elections due by May, echoed Bishop\u2019s criticism of the leaked text.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leaking of this text message is a considerable escalation of the conflict,\u201d Albanese said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDiplomacy requires trust and it requires sombre engagement between leaders,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>French Ambassador to Australia Jean-Pierre Thebault, who was recalled to Paris in protest at the scrapping of the submarine contract, will outline French complaints about the government\u2019s behaviour when he addresses the National Press Club of Australia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Minister Marine Payne on Monday had her first meeting with Thebault since his return. Payne said in a statement the pair had a constructive discussion and their meeting was an important step in advancing the bilateral relationship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1907216494845\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018We Didn\u2019t Deface the Eiffel Tower\u2019 \u2013 Australia Mocks Macron After Oz PM Called a Liar over U.S. Sub Deal <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dMqmAChj0I\">https:\/\/t.co\/dMqmAChj0I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1455106666337292289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANBERRA, Australia (AP) \u2013 Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison attacked the credibility of French President Emmanuel Macron as a newspaper quoted a text message that suggested France anticipated \u201cbad news\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-952918","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\/952918","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952918\/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=952918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}