French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on medium-sized powers to join forces and stand up to the US and China. ‘I think our objective is not to be the vessels of two hegemonic powers. None of these hegemonic powers, I would say. And we don’t want to depend on the dominance, let’s say, on China, or we don’t want to be too much exposed to the unpredictability of the US’, he said while talking to students during his tour to South Korea. He also slammed the US for jeopardising international order, saying that ‘What we have to do is to stick to the principles we signed a charter building the United Nations and the day you start creating yourself double standards what is your credibility to avoid war? The day you say I don’t like your regime I don’t like your organization I consider you are threatening your neighbor so I will intervene and bomb you you open a Pandora box because nobody why shouldn’t the other do the same?’, he said.