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Khmer Rouge blind spots
How French and American journalists misunderstood Cambodia's Tragedy
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Henri Astier
The US as a banana republic
Trump has been compared to Argentina's Javier Milei. A better parallel would be with Juan Perón
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Henri Astier
Bastiat wake up, they've gone crazy
The French free-trade champion exposed Trump's tariff madness 180 years ago
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Henri Astier
The people v judges
Marine Le Pen's election ban is a disaster of her own making, not a judicial coup
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Henri Astier
Putin's French appeasers
President Macron champions European resistance to Russia, but his successor may not
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Henri Astier
Europe's back against the wall
As EU leaders seek to mobilise support for Ukraine while keeping the US on side, a French senator puts the continent's challenge bluntly.
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Henri Astier
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Macron, Gaullist in reverse
Macron epitomises European hopes that despite the new Trump-Putin friendship, America will be there for its allies
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Henri Astier
Out of France
You don't really know your native country until you've left it
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