For several years, certain foreign powers have not hesitated to use all stratagems to destabilize France in its overseas territories. On the front line, Xi Jinping’s China and Vladimir Putin’s Russia are increasing their interference with economic… but also geopolitical views. As in Africa, the Kremlin has targeted overseas as the Achilles heel of French influence. It is then a question of presenting France as a neocolonial state, in order to position itself as an ally of the countries of the South while destabilizing an adversary with 2.2 million overseas inhabitants and 10 million square kilometers of exclusive economic zone. , on all continents.
China is also using this lever. In New Caledonia, for example, the Middle Kingdom has long established relationships with independence leaders. On February 9, during a trip by Renaissance MP Sylvain Maillard, Roch Wamytan, the pro-independence president of the Congress, the Caledonian Parliament, reportedly told him: “The Chinese have never colonized us, unlike the French. The Caledonians are descending in part of the Melanesians, who partly descend from the Austronesians, who come from the Chinese. So I am, like all the Kanaks, 75% Papuan and 25% Chinese.” Geopolitical experts believe that China dreams of completing its peaceful establishment on the Caillou, useful in the event of conflict with the United States… while eyeing its nickel production, more than 50% of which is exported to the most populous state in the country. world.
In this video, our journalist Alexandra Saviana gives us the keys to understanding these shadow strategies, which aim to destabilize France.