I don’t understand how people, several of whom I know, were capable of lying to me.face to face for 18 months,” Thebault said of the Australian officials he worked with. “I don’t understand how it was possible to commit such a lie. The Indo-Pacific deal, concealed from French officials, scuppered a previous $66 billion contract for Australia to buy 12 conventional diesel-electric submarines from a French manufacturer.Īpart from the ruptured contract, France thinks the deal trampled longstanding alliances, and its interests in the Pacific – where it has 2 million citizens in French territories and 7,000 military troops – were ignored. The unprecedented diplomatic move reflected the depth of France’s anger at an agreement for Australia to obtain a fleet of eight nuclear-powered submarines built with U.S. The French government recalled Thebault to Paris last month along with the French ambassador to the U.S.
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