Harris sent to play nice with France after Biden almost ruins relationship
November 10, 2021 | BPR Wire |
Sebastian Hughes, DCNF
Vice President Kamala Harris arrived in Paris on Tuesday as part of an effort to revitalize relations between France and the U.S. as tensions between the two countries remain high.
The U.S. negotiated a submarine deal with Australia and the U.K. in September, effectively killing a deal France had with the former and frustrating the French government. France’s foreign minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, called the move “a stab in the back” and likened the behavior to that of former President Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden acknowledged the handling of the deal as “clumsy” during the G-20 conference, CNN reported.
The five-day trip to France will be Harris’ first to Europe since taking office, CNN reported. She began her visit by going to the Pasteur Institute in Paris on Tuesday to meet American and French scientists working on COVID-19 preparedness, ABC News reported.
“Some of the most significant discoveries in science on any issue, from rabies to HIV-AIDS, to breast cancer, to mRNA and what we do around vaccines and pandemics, have occurred here in collaboration with French scientists, American scientists, scientists around the world coming together,” Harris, whose mother died of colon cancer, said.
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