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U.S. President Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron will speak by phone in the next few days as the French president seeks “clarification” about a deal that saw Paris lose its multibillion-dollar submarine contract with Australia.
French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said on BFM TV that Biden had requested the meeting.
“What’s at stake in this crisis is the strategy (in the Pacific), which is more important than the commercial considerations,” Attal said. “This is what we’ll be discussing.”
France on Friday said it was recalling its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia in a diplomatic move intended to convey its anger over
