>France is actively and aggressively involved in industrial espionage against US companies.
Yeah, I already covered that: with 1/10 the resources to take advantage of it. And 1/100 the scale.
What's France and the US's GDP again? How many French companies compete in the same sector and at the same level as US multinationals? How much political pressure can France assert to a third country to take advantage of it for its own interests compared to the US?
There are only few French companies playing in the big leagues. And France is an old colonial power -- with some illusions of grandeur still and active secret agencies. It's not a representative of most European countries -- there's tens of European and EU countries with less than half the resources of France.
> And France is an old colonial power -- with some illusions of grandeur still and active secret agencies.
Old colonial power what a laugh, are you waking-up from the 60'? with some illusions of grandeur when all anglo-saxons medias report how much French are depressed and always pessimists. Anyway, I always like a bit of French bashing based on caricatures, always very accurate...
>Old colonial power what a laugh, are you waking-up from the 60'?
Not sure what you mean. France has had extended colonies up until the sixties, so it's very much one of the "old colonial powers". Is there another way to put it?
Fact is, they still like to meddle worldwide, and they still have claims on places that they have no place to be except by their colonial past:
Yeah, I already covered that: with 1/10 the resources to take advantage of it. And 1/100 the scale.
What's France and the US's GDP again? How many French companies compete in the same sector and at the same level as US multinationals? How much political pressure can France assert to a third country to take advantage of it for its own interests compared to the US?
There are only few French companies playing in the big leagues. And France is an old colonial power -- with some illusions of grandeur still and active secret agencies. It's not a representative of most European countries -- there's tens of European and EU countries with less than half the resources of France.