France Vs Azerbaijan: The World's Explosive New Rivalry
Simon Whistler · July 30, 2024 · 23 min video · Europe & NATO
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Even by the standards of the 2020s, the events in New Caledonia this May were explosive. Following a proposed constitutional change to French-Pacific Island territory was engulfed in large-scale rioting. For days, the capital of Namair burned.
My people were killed with hundreds being injured. The incident got so bad that French President Emmanuel Macron was forced to declare an emergency to flee thousands of riot police. In the weeks since those blood-soaked days of fragile calm has returned to New Caledonia.
Although there have been flare-ups of violence since peace mostly helped. Yet on the wider geopolitical stage, the impacts of the rioting is still being felt. Not just because of the open challenge to French privacy power, but because of who was involved in that challenge, rather than being solely home-grown protests originating in Moscow or Beijing.
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